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OF LIFE AND MIND. 



BY 

REV. J. HOWARD CASHMERE 

Professor of 

Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Telepathy, Clairvoyance and 

Allied Psychic Phenomena 



"And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is 
mad; why hear ye him? 

Others said, These are not the words of him that 
hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?" 

—(John X, 20-21.) 



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CONTENTS. 

PART I. 

PAGE 

Introduction 13 

The Vision 59 

Notes 95 

PART II. 

PAGE 

The Voice of God, A Eevelation 103 

The Soul Is God 109 

God the Source of All Phenomena 113 

Material Aid Valuable 121 

Only the Wise Understand 127 

The Power of the Soul 131 

What Is Sin? 135 

Some of the Conditions 139 

One Power Eules All 143 

The Conquests of Mind 151 

A Study of His Works, Gravitation 157 

A Study of His Works, Magnetism 167 

Psychic Development 173 

All for the Best 199 

Notes 205 



PREFACE. 

"The light shineth in darkness, and the dark- 
ness comprehended it not." In presenting this 
book to the public, I do so with many misgivings, 
fearing that the time may not yet be ripe for the 
true comprehension of the great truths of being. 
Every new conception of a truth is scoffed at. 
Galileo was tortured by the Inquisition for his 
new teachings concerning astronomy; Columbus 
was scorned because he imagined he could sail 
around the world; and to cite a case of more re- 
cent date we find that our great inventor, Edison, 
was termed "insane" for thinking that it was pos- 
sible to send several telegraph messages over the 
same wire at once. At the present time, however, 
men of science are somewhat careful about deny- 
ing the possibility of the correctness of any new 
hypothesis that may be offered for their considera- 
tion. And to those who must see before they will 
believe, the mere assertion or statement of anyone, 
especially concerning subjects prominent in this 
book, gives little if any weight to the propositions 
presented. 

For this reason I have frequently quoted prom- 
inent authors, both atheists and theists, and have 
gradually led up to the propositions presented in 



6 PREFACE. 

the introductory part of this book, by giving the 
reader a general knowledge of those sciences which 
have a direct relation to the subject of the follow- 
ing essays. 

One night in November of this past year, I 
arose shortly after midnight with an unaccount- 
able impulse, and while but partly awake wrote 
the lines in meter, which I present under the title 
"The Voice of God" in Part II of this book. In 
my endeavor to solve the full meaning of those 
lines, written as an inspiration, the propositions 
which I am about to present concerning the ego, 
or spirit of man, were evolved. 

To those who wish to accept the propositions 
within as mere hypotheses I believe they will prove 
valuable in explaining many of the mysteries of 
this lower plane. 

It should be borne in mind by my readers that 
the object of speculation is not to devise theories 
for their own sake, but to furnish a working hy- 
pothesis which will help us to understand the facts 
of the subject under consideration, and also to 
lead to a further discovery of facts. 

From my earliest recollections, I have been a 
student of the "words" and "works" of God, and 
slowly but surely I have received additional light 
from that "Light which lighteth every man that 
cometh into the world." Not because I have lived 
a more perfect or purer life than others, for I 
have not, and my life has been filled with many 



PREFACE. 7 

errors; but from a desire, God given, and coming 
from my inner self, I from childhood have been 
a seeker after Truth, and like all those who have 
realized their oneness with the Great All, and have 
been the recipient of His divine messages of light 
and love, I am filled with the desire to lead others 
in that Light of Truth which is Eternal. 

From thoughts which have, apparently, come 
to my mind like the remembrance of another life; 
from a close study of the words of Jesus and his 
immediate followers; from a close investigation 
into the realms of both physical and psychical 
sciences, I have finally gained what is to me a 
clear conception of the nature of the ego, and its 
relationship to the great All, or God. 

Having had a practical experience for a num- 
ber of years, both in public and private life, as a 
demonstrator and teacher of those psychic phe- 
nomena, usually termed occult, mesmerism, hyp- 
notism, telepathy, spiritism and many other sim- 
ilar abnormal manifestations, I believe that I am 
in position to discuss these numerous psychic ac- 
tivities intelligently. Not as yet finding it neces- 
sary to entirely inhibit my normal consciousness, 
or, in other words, to use the deeper trance, in 
order to produce the highest mental phenomena, I 
have received the full benefit arising from the 
thoughts received while in both the objective and 
subjective state. 

While the propositions which I will present 



8 PREFACE. 

concerning the egOj or spirit of man, may at first 
appear startling to those who have not made a 
study of this subject, yet I believe that a closer 
acquaintance with the subject will impress the 
casual reader with the sincerity of my effort to 
keep within the limits of correct reasoning. 

If this book will enable others to receive a 
clearer comprehension of these higher truths of 
being, and remove but a part of the mystery which 
has surrounded this and allied subjects for ages, 
then my object in writing these pages will be partly 
accomplished. 

Part II of this book has previously been issued 
in booklet form, and if the reader should find repe- 
titions or want of harmony between the two parts, 
it is because a pressure of other work has prevented 
me from making a complete revision of the essays 
previously published. 

In my investigations of the physical and psy- 
chical sciences bearing upon the questions dis- 
cussed in this book, I have been careful in quot- 
ing only those writers who are recognized as au- 
thorities upon these subjects; and if I have failed 
to give credit where credit is due, it is because of 
my haste in writing. I take occasion to acknowl- 
edge my indebtedness to the following works : 
Haeckle's Eiddle of the Universe, and The Evolu- 
tion of Man ; Huxley's Essays ; Flammarion's Un- 
known; Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena; 
Hudson's Law of Mental Medicine; Eemsen's 



PREFACE. 9 

Chemistry; Steele's Physics; and to 0. S. Fowler, 
the celebrated phrenologist, now deceased, I credit 
the location of the ego of man in the right central 
lobe of the brain. And to the writings of Flechig, 
who has recently pointed out as the result of his 
microscopic investigations into the brain of man, 
that very specific structures are found in these 
central lobes, which are wanting in other mam- 
mals. 

J. H. C. 
Denver, Colo., March 1, 1905 



PAET I. 



INTRODUCTION. 

THE TIME HAS COME. I have a message 
of life and light for all the world. The hour is 
at hand when all may know the mystery of life, 
of the ego and God, and through this knowledge 
gain eternal life. "And this is life eternal that 
they might know thee the only true God, and 
Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." The last 
century has witnessed the greatest advance in both 
physical and psychical knowledge the world has 
ever known. Science has established the insepar- 
dbleness of spirit, or energy and matter, and by 
unifying the chemical law of the "persistence" or 
"indestructibility of matter" established by La- 
voisier in 1789, and the physical law of the "per- 
sistence of force" or "conservation of energy" dis- 
covered by Mayer in 1842, into the one great law 
of the "persistence of matter and force," we have 
achieved the greatest intellectual feat of the past 
century. 

The monistic philosopher is right. The dual- 
istic philosopher is right. Spirit, or Force and 
Matter exist, yet both are One, are but different 
manifestations of the All, are but different attri- 
butes of the Cosmos. Spinoza, the founder of 
pure monistic philosophy, first perceived this great 



14 INTRODUCTION. 

truth, which more clearly expressed is, that mat- 
ter, or infinitely extended substance, and spirit, the 
omnipresent force, the sensitive or thinking sub- 
stance, are the two fundamental attributes or prin- 
cipal properties of the all-embracing Divine Es- 
sence of the Cosmos, the Universal Substance, the 
All, the Infinite, the Eternal. 

With finite understanding we cannot conceive 
that matter may exist and be operative without 
spirit or force. Force or energy is but an attri- 
bute of substance; we cannot conceive of the ex- 
istence of force other than as a condition or qual- 
ity of something tangible, that is, we cannot con- 
ceive of anything that is not something. Matter 
and force are inseparable; one is complemental of 
the other; each is necessary for the manifestation 
of the other, and the discovery and establishment 
of this all-embracing cosmological law has opened 
up the way for a clearer comprehension of the 
All and has forever banished the superstitional 
dogma of actio in distans. As to the real nature 
of the Cosmos or the All, we as yet may only con- 
jecture; we perceive its space filling attribute, 
matter ; we recognize its attribute of moving force, 
energy; but of the underlying substance possess- 
ing these two qualities, we only know that it is. 

Why do we only know that it is? Why do we 
not know just what these atoms of this "sub- 
stance" look like. It is because we are blind, to- 
tally blind. I am not speaking figuratively; I 



INTRODUCTION. 15 

mean just exactly what I say. We are literally and 
truly blind. What we know as sight is merely a 
highly developed sense of feeling; the eyes are 
really highly sensitive organs of feeling. In fact, 
to really see as we formerly regarded the process 
of seeing would be nothing less than a continuous 
miracle. 

What we call seeing is a vibratory movement 
of light waves impinging upon the atoms of retina 
of the eye; the "voices of many atoms." The eye 
may be compared to a host of musicians whose 
work it is to echo the voices which impinge upon 
them. All the voices are borne up to the ego, who 
may listen to one or all as it may wish, just as a 
trained musical director may pick out the music 
of any instrument among a hundred and listen 
to that alone. Thus the ego may concentrate its 
attention upon any part of the image it may wish. 

I am going to explain this truth fully, that 
everyone may know that he is really blind, 
and thus by knowing this may receive real sight, 
which is knowledge gained from the Light of 
Truth. Man has no other sense than that of feel- 
ing. The fingers feel the vibration of masses of 
substance ; the tongue feels the vibrations of mole- 
cules of substance; the nostrils feel the vibrations 
of atoms of substance; the ears feel the vibra- 
tions of gaseous substance; the eyes feel the vi- 
brations of the ether substance. The reason that 
man cannot "see" an atom of substance is because 



16 INTRODUCTION. 

he can only feel the wave in the ether coming from 
that atom; you can magnify the size of "feel- 
ing" coming from the atom, but you only mag- 
nify the wave in the ether, the atom is just as 
small as ever, and you can no more ascertain its real 
size (though you can its comparative size) by "feel- 
ing" the waves coming from it, than you could tell 
the size and shape of stones thrown into a still lake 
by an examination of the waves which were propa- 
gated in all directions from the place where the 
stone enters the water. What, then, do we 
really know about the outer world? What 
can we really know about it from the 
ether waves coming from it? It was only 
by an analysis of those waves coming from 
separate atoms (incandescent gases) that we really 
knew there were any atoms. The only explanation 
we can postulate for the phenomena of sight is 
that man is billions times larger than he conceives 
his "body" to be. We have, however, by compar- 
ing things to our own self which we have assumed 
to he a certain size, gained a conception of the rela- 
tive size of all masses of substance; and from a 
multitude of observations and calculations, to long 
to be given here, we have estimated the approxi- 
mate size of an atom of hydrogen to be one 480- 
miUionth of an inch, that is, if 480,000,000 hydro- 
gen atoms were placed side by side they would 
make a line just an inch in length. If we took 
the immortal atom for a standard unit of meas- 



INTRODUCTION. 17 

urement, and gave to it the height of Htas, we 
would speak of man then as a being who was 500,- 
000 miles high, or 31,680,000,000 times as high 
as an atom of matter. Man then would be a being 
so tall that if he stood upon the earth of the size 
we think it now he would find the moon below 
his waist. 

There is no possibility at present of gaining 
other than a comparative conception of the size 
of anything, "of absolute magnitude we can form 
no conception; all magnitudes are known to us 
as equal to, more than, less than, certain other 
magnitudes." (Spencer.) Until we acquire some 
other "feeling sense" than optical, or other than 
microscopic magnifying power it is evident that 
we will be unable to gather any adequate concep- 
tion or comprehension of the real nature or char- 
acter of the underlying substance in its ultimate 
division into atoms, other than through the 
"thought/' or "feelings" brought to us by the 
Light of Truth. 

From our clearest conceptions of the infinity 
of space we must reason that there can be no more 
limit to its fractional division than there can be 
to its infinite extension. We can conceive of just 
as many subdivisions of an atom, though it seems 
impossible to divide one, as we can enumerate 
atoms. It is an infinity in either direction; and 
man, a conscious atom, on which the impression 
from either direction impinge, that is, from within 



18 INTRODUCTION. 

or without, stands midway between these great 
Infinities. Within the atom there is order and 
Light, and that is God; each atom is an infinity 
of itself ; outside the atom all is darkness and dis- 
order; an infinity of infinities, forming constella- 
tions of illusions. Who is bold enough to say that 
there is not just as great an intelligence, just as 
many entities within the atom as there is without? 
Who is he that can conceive of a particle of sub- 
stance so small that he cannot mentally divide it 
into parts? Neither can he fix any limit to the 
number of atoms which fill the whole outer infin- 
ity of space. 

If we could really see there would be no dark- 
ness. If we could pierce beyond the great sphere 
of constellations, which entirely surrounds us and 
which has been called "the eyes of God;" we per- 
haps might come to a great sphere of life which 
surrounds the whole infinity which contains us all. 
Every "constellation of atoms" within this sphere 
are perhaps but the "thoughts of our God/' are 
but a mirror, or duplicate of the impressions 
which our God receives from the "atoms" like it- 
self, which makes up the infinity of a greater 
"atom" which surrounds the hosts of "atoms" 
like our God, even as all these hosts of "atoms" 
in the infinity about us are surrounded by our 
God. Who, then, dare say that our thoughts are 
not "things," things or smaller "atoms" within 
us, who look upon us as their God, and who them- 



INTRODUCTION. 19 

selves are an "atom" with an infinity of smaller 
"atoms" within, and so on comparatively smaller 
and smaller forever and ever. Is not this a true 
comprehension of infinity? We are but atoms, 
perhaps the very last constellation of atoms, who 
are within a mighty sphere, or infinite atom, how 
large we may not know, who have not been created 
into immortal shapes. 

( The ether is the God Substance which fills this 
great infinite atom. In any direction we may go 
and find our God, for He entirely surrounds us. 
We cannot detect the presence of ether by the 
means used to recognize matter, yet we know that 
it has a real existence from its manifestations, and 
from our ability to utilize it as a medium for the 
transmission of intelligence. By a deeper study of 
the forces at work in nature and by the facility 
with which we are able to transmit power and in- 
telligence to a distance, we see that it is not neces- 
sary that the Creator should be present to give us 
inspiration. Tesla and others have contrived 
mechanisms so sensitive and responsive to the ef- 
fects of ethereal undulations, that with their aid 
engines, motors, etc., may be stopped, started or 
reversed, while at a distance, or a fuse connected 
with an explosive discharge ignited at whatever 
moment it may be desired. If the ingenuity of 
man can accomplish such wonderful things as 
these through a medium which is so subtle and 
ethereal as to escape the perception of his senses 



20 INTRODUCTION. 

other than through its manifestations, should we 
then prescribe limits to the power or action of a 
Supreme Being who works through the same subtle 
medium? A miracle as it is usually regarded is 
an absurdity. Every manifestation in the whole 
realm of nature perceived by man is traceable to 
natural causes, if his intelligence is sufficiently ac- 
cute to make the tracings. The soul when it has 
developed the higher telapathic and intuitive fac- 
ulty thinks and feels with its inner psychic senses, 
thus reaching a higher development in wisdom 
and reason, conceiving of many things concerning 
the Infinite and the Eternal, which before it could 
not even conceive that it might be conceivable. 

As I have posited that the real ego of man is 
but a highly conscious atom with a nature some- 
thing like, or that really is, a hydrogen atom, I 
will try to make this postulate consistent with the 
light of our highest knowledge of the surrounding 
infinity, and of the infinity within ourselves which 
forms our consciousness, as yet we do not know 
whether the impressions we apparently receive 
from without are but the mirror of those that come 
from within, or that the reverse is true, or that 
we really receive impressions from both directions. 
One or the other or both we are certain must be 
true. If the former is true, then we are the whole 
infinity and the impressions we receive come from 
within not without. If the latter is true then we 
are but a sensitive atom of the infinity upon which 



INTRODUCTION. 21 

the impressions from the infinity without impinge. 
If both are true we receive impressions from the 
infinity within and without, but in each case it is 
the same; we can only be a mirror, a mirror re- 
ceiving impressions, comparing to a spherical shell 
with a mirror on both its outer and inner surface. 

Then this is the picture I present of the atom, 
a spherical shell with a sensitive outer and inner 
surface, and filled within and surrounded by a 
sensitive God substance, an immortal ether. This 
picture is but a figurative one; though I see a 
"light" ahead, it has only commenced to dawn, 
and as yet "we see through a glass, darkly;" "but 
when that which is perfect is come, then that which 
is in part shall be done away," then shall we see 
"face to face." We are yet groping blindly in 
the Doubting Castle of Giant Despair, which is 
man, but some of us have "found the Key of 
Faith" within, which is the God Given Light of 
Truth. 

If a second of time, which is our unit of meas- 
urement, is also the unit of God's measurement, 
that is, if it is the day of God's time, and this is 
what the ego from the beating of its "heart" would 
choose, then upon the real plane a day of the 
Lord, or our second, is just 1,000 years. For if 
the size of man is 31,680,000,000 times larger 
than he now conceives himself to be, and that 
what he thinks is his real size is really the size 
of his real self, or ego, which is the size of a hydro- 



22 INTRODUCTION. 

gen atom, and this is what we would infer as each 
ego, on its coming to consciousness in this world, 
seems to attribute the same comparative size to 
itself as every other ego does, and without doubt it 
is the same with the ego of animals, each one think- 
ing their body to be the same size as the conscious 
atom or ego within, then his conception of time 
would be as proportionately small, 31,680,000,000 
times too small. One second would therefore 
equal 31,680,000,000 seconds, or 1,000 years. 

If the reader will turn to the Gospel according 
to Mark, chapter VIII, from the 22nd to the 26th 
verses, inclusive, and read the story of the 
blind man who, when suddenly given sight after 
being blind from birth, saw the legs of men "as 
trees, walking," he will find a startling application 
to this first phenomenal sight of the blind man 
to the proposition I have just offered. It would 
seem that this man who had never seen before, 
had upon the first opening of his eyes, seen the 
forms of men as immense giants, which were so 
tall that he had referred their appearance to the 
largest and tallest things he had previously gained 
a conception of, namely, trees. Is it any wonder 
that Jesus, when asked, "Who did sin, this man, 
or his parents, that he was born blind ?" answered, 
"Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents; 
but that the works of God should be made mani- 
fest in him." Has it taken all this time for the 



INTRODUCTION. 23 

works of God to become manifest? Are we never 
to see, really see? 

You think I am mad do you not? I presume 
you do. But the Light of the world was called 
mad because he told the people that they were blind 
and tried to open their eyes. Are you still so evil 
that you will reject the Light the same as those 
Pharisees of old? 

"And many of them said, He has a devil, and 
is mad; why hear ye him? 

"Others said, these are not the words of Him 
that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of 
the 'blind/ (John X, 20-21.) 

"And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into 
this world, that they which see not might see, and 
that they which see might be made blind. 

"And some of the Pharisees which were with 
him heard these words, and said unto him, Are 
we blind also? 

"Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye 
should have no sin; but now ye say, We see; there- 
fore your sin remaineth." (John IX, 39-41.) 

Is it any wonder that the people at that time 
when Light came unto the world, who had so little 
objective knowledge of the process of sight, were 
unable to understand the real truth of the teach- 
ings of Jesus, and that seeing the utter impossi- 
bility of making them understand he taught them 
in parables. Jesus further said, "No man can 
come to me, except the Father draw him; and I 



24 INTRODUCTION. 

will raise him up at the last day." Thus at the 
"last day/' which is the last "second" of your life, 
if you, the ego, are vibrating in harmony with the 
Father, from the very law of attraction which I 
will fully demonstrate later, you, the ego, though 
not always your whole "body" will be translated 
like Enoch, who "walked (moved in harmony with) 
with God, and he was not for Good took him." 

Either the ego, the real man, or spirit, is blind, 
or else it "has eyes and sees not," because the light 
of the spirit, which is the Light of His Presence, 
does not penetrate this bottomless abyss. From 
our former conception of sight, we must conclude 
that if on the spiritual plane there is a real pro- 
cess of seeing, that is, a process that is not really 
a sense of feeling, it must necessarily partake of 
the nature of Omniscience. To have the real spir- 
itual eyes of the ego opened would confer upon it 
all the attributes of an Omniscient, Omnipresent, 
and Omnipotent Being, thus giving it the power 
to annihilate time and space, so that it could be 
anywhere and everywhere at any time it chose 
to be. 

Spiritual blindness, then, is synonymous with 
ignorance or darkness, which so burdens the ego 
with materiality that it becomes out of harmony, 
or unlike, the Homogeneous All, and thus from its 
unlikeness to the All, it receives an individuality. 
The whole object or function of the individual, 
therefore, is to rid itself from its burden of ig- 



INTRODUCTION. 25 

norance or materiality that it may be accepted 
back into the All. And in so far as we gain the 
Light of Truth do we become acceptable unto the 
All. We can conceive that to an immortal homo- 
geneous All, time could have no real existence, and 
thus by the annihilation of time the infinitude of 
space would lose its attribute of extension as there 
would be nothing but an infinity of homogeneous 
substance with which it could be compared. There- 
fore, to the All, or God, space and time have no 
real existence. We can conceive how that the ego 
of man, an atom of the All, surrounded by a host 
of other like atoms, and with these other atoms 
separated or cut off in some manner from the All, 
loses the attributes of the All, which are Omnis- 
cience, Omnipresence and Omnipotence. 

This separation or segregation of the individual 
from the All, is responsible for man's present 
"blind" condition. 

As we know the ego of man has lost these Di- 
vine attributes, the legitimate conclusion, there- 
fore, is that the ego is separated from the All, or 
God. 

The object of this book is to present such a 
clear conception of the All, and of the hosts of 
atoms, or egos, which are separated from it, that 
each and every atom may become once more in 
harmony with that great All and thus from that 
very harmony, which I have posited to be the se- 



26 INTRODUCTION. 

cret of all attraction, may be drawn once more 
back to the All. 

Every movement, which man perceives, whether 
we call it life, spirit, energy, force, chemical af- 
finity, etc., is but the result of the attraction of 
those atoms which are vibrating in unison. 

Through investigations of a chemical nature, 
we have demonstrated that all things known to 
man are made up of a few simple substances, either 
existing alone or in richly various combination. 
These simple substances when existing alone are 
called the chemical elements, or the elementary 
substances; the things resulting when different 
elements are united together are called compounds. 

Through a multitude of observations we now 
know that the elementary substances are made up 
of tiny, immortal and, apparently, unchangeable 
beings which are termed atoms. Through the aid 
of the wonder-working spectroscope and by a deli- 
cate apparatus, called diffraction grating, which 
is a metallic mirror on the face of which upward 
to 40,000 lines are ruled side by side in a space 
an inch wide, we are enabled to calculate the length 
of the light waves coming from electrified or in- 
candescent atoms. Knowing the speed of light 
waves, after their length is known, it is an easy 
matter to calculate their frequency per second, 
Knowing that all electrified bodies vibrate or give 
out etheric discharges or waves, with a frequency 
in proportion to their diameter; we are enabled 



INTRODUCTION. 27 

to estimate the approximate size of the atoms of 
matter from the frequency of their undulations 
per second. When the white light is dispersed 
into its different colors, by being reflected by the 
surface of the grating, a "picture" of the differ- 
ent frequencies per second is thrown upon a screen 
which is spread out like a ribbon which is red at 
one end and violet at the other. Between these 
colors lie orange, yellow, green, cyan-blue and ul- 
tramarine blue. This picture is called a spectrum. 

The limitations of this book will not permit 
a full discussion of this interesting subject here, 
and I refer the reader to any recent work upon 
physics; suffice it to say that we have found that 
each element when its atoms are separated by 
heat and become incandescent (a heated gas), give 
a spectrum of one or more bright lines, and thus 
by the analysis of the spectrum of distant stars, we 
have found that they are made of the same ele- 
ments as those which form the many compounds 
of earth; and from this discovery, declared by sci- 
entists a century ago, to be utterly impossible for 
the mind of man to ever know, we have justly con- 
cluded that the entire universe is made up of these 
simple elementary substances. 

As we know that a "picture" is only the re- 
flected motion of wave frequencies, we conclude 
that the bright lines given off from the spectrum 
of any element faithfully records their frequency 
of discharge per second. Knowing that the whole 



28 INTRODUCTION. 

range of the spectrum covers but an "octave," 
that is, the ultra-violet waves have a frequency of 
760,000,000,000,000 per second, which is just dou- 
ble of those at the other end, or the ultra-red, 
which have a frequency of 380,000,000,000,000 per 
second, by locating the position of the bright lines 
in the spectrum given off from any element, we 
are able to calculate its approximate frequency per 
second. 

The whole range of the visible spectrum has 
been aptly compared to an octave in music; the 
ultra-red waves representing the note C and the 
ultra-violet waves representing a note an octave 
above the other note, and whose vibrating fre- 
quency is just double of the note below ; the colors 
between the red and the violet comparing to the 
intermediate notes within the octave. And just 
as the harmonious combination of these notes of 
music gives a pleasing sound to the ear, so does a 
harmonious combination of the colors give a pleas- 
ing picture to the eye. White light might be com- 
pared to the sounding of every note within the 
octave at once. Thus each of the different ele- 
ments "beat" at a certain and unchangeable (?) 
frequency per second; and in plain terms the 
spectroscope enables us to tell just what kind of 
element the "light" is coming from by the "tone" 
or frequency of its undulations. Some of the ele- 
ments, however, give out more than one tone, and 
from this we would conclude that they are really 



INTRODUCTION. 29 

a compound, or that the atoms of the element have 
different frequencies. This difference in "tone" is 
perhaps the only real difference between the ele- 
ments, and at one time, when they were all beat- 
ing in harmony, they wonld have formed one hom- 
ogeneous All. This, in other words, has been sug- 
gested by Sir William Crookes, and others, who 
have pointed out that we may conceive that the 
elements as we now know them may have evolved 
from a simple primitive substance, or prothyl. 

Chemical affinity may be the result of a cer- 
tain vibratory relationship, similar to a "chord" 
in music, which moves the elements in harmony, 
and would seem to account for the elements unit- 
ing in a certain manner, discovered by Dalton in 
1808, and which is termed the "law of simple and 
multiple proportions." Several years ago I pub- 
lished a theory to account for the phenomena of 
gravitation and magnetism, in which I pointed out 
that these phenomena were due to etheric undula- 
tions, and in which I prophecied that "the vibra- 
tion of matter admitted by all would ultimately 
account for every force and phenomena known to 
man, and the difference between the elements of 
matter." This theory, with the observations that 
led up to it, will be fully presented in Part II of 
this book. 

In order to show that I am not the only or 
first person to attribute a consciousness to each 
atom, and that the propositions which I am about 



30 INTRODUCTION. 

to present concerning the ego are but 'legitimate 
conclusions from the "atomistic theory of con- 
sciousness," I will quote the following passages 
from Haeckle, in The Riddle of the Universe, 
page 178 : 

"Atomistic theory of consciousness. — It is an ele- 
mentary property of all atoms. This atomistic hy- 
pothesis goes furthest of all the different views as 
to the extension of consciousness. It certainly 
escapes the difficulty which so many philosophers and 
biologists experience in solving the problem of the 
first origin of consciousness. It is a phenomenon of 
so peculiar a character that a derivation of it from 
other psychic functions seems extremely hazardous. 
It seemed, therefore, the easiest way out of the dif- 
ficulty to conceive it as an inherent property of all 
matter, like gravitation or chemical affinity. On that 
hypothesis there would be as many forms of this 
original consciousness as there are chemical ele- 
ments; each atom of hydrogen would have its hydro- 
genic consciousness, each atom of carbon its carbonic 
consciousness, and so forth. There are philosophers, 
even, who ascribe consciousness to the four elements 
of Empedocles, the union of which, by 'love and 
hate,' produces the totality of things. 

"Personally, I have never subscribed to this hy- 
potaesis. I emphasize the point because Emil du 
Bois-Reymond has attributed it to me. In the con- 
troversy I had with him (1880) he violently attacked 
my 'pernicious and false philosophy,' and contended 
that I had, in my paper on 'The Perigenesis of the 
Plastidule,' 'laid it down as a metaphysical axiom 
that every atom has its individual consciousness.' 
On the contrary, I explicitly stated that I conceive 



INTRODUCTION. 31 

the elementary psychic qualities of sensation and 
will, which may be attributed to atoms, to be un- 
conscious — just as unconscious as the elementary 
memory which I, in company with that distinguished 
physiologist, Ewald Hering, consider to be 'a com- 
mon function of all organized matter' — or, more cor- 
rectly, 'living substance.' " 

Haeckle here denies his subscription to the 
"atomistic theory of consciousness/' but further 
on in the same book, page 220, he contradicts him- 
self. 

After summing up the merits of the "kinetic 
theory of substance," founded by Newton, in 
which the atoms themselves are represented as be- 
ing "dead, separate particles of matter, which 
dance to and fro in space and act at a distance," 
he quotes from J. G-. Vogt, who established the 
"pyknotic theory of substance," or the "theory of 
condensation." Part of the quotation is here pre- 
sented : 

"These minute parts of the universal substance, 
the centers of condensation, which might be called 
pyknat07iis, correspond in general to the ultimate sep- 
arate atoms of the kinetic theory; they differ, how- 
ever, very considerably in that they are credited with 
sensation and inclination (or will-movement of the 
simplest form) , with souls, in a certain sense — in har- 
mony with the old theory of Empedocles of the 'love 
and hatred of the elements.' Moreover, these 'atoms 
with souls' do not float in empty space, but in the con- 
tinuous, extremely attenuated intermediate substance 



32 INTRODUCTION. 

(the ether), which represents the uncondensed por- 
tion of the primitive matter." 

This theory Haeckle sums up as follows, reject- 
ing the kinetic theory: 

"Modern physics, for the most part, still firmly 
adheres to the older theory of vibration, to the idea 
of an actio in distans and the eternal" vibration of 
dead atoms in empty space; it rejects the pyknotic 
theory. Although Vogt's theory may be still far from 
perfect, and his original speculations may be marred 
by many errors, yet I think he has rendered a very 
good service in eliminating the untenable principle 
of the kinetic theory of substance. As to my own 
opinion — and that of many other scientists — I must 
lay down the following theses, which are involved in 
Vogt's pyknotic theory, as indispensable for a truly 
monistic view of substance, and one which covers 
the whole field of organic and inorganic nature." 
(The italics are mine.) 

"I. The two fundamental forms of substance, 
ponderable matter and ether, are not dead and only 
moved about by extrinsic force, but they are endowed 
with sensation and will (though naturally, of the 
lowest grade); they experience an inclination for 
condensation, a dislike of strain; they strive after the 
one and struggle against the other. 

"II. There is no such thing as empty space; that 
part of space which is not occupied by ponderable 
atoms is filled with ether. 

"III. There is no such thing as action at a dis- 
tance through perfectly empty space; all action of 
bodies upon each other is either determined by imme- 
diate contact or is affected by the mediation of the 
ether." 



INTRODUCTION. 33 

On page 225 he again contradicts his first 
statement : 

"The different relation of the various elements 
toward each other, which chemistry calls 'affinity,' is 
one of the most important properties of ponderable 
matter; it is manifested in the different relative 
quantities or proportions of their combination in the 
intensity of its consummation. Every shade of in- 
clination, from complete indifference to the fiercest 
passion, is exemplified in the chemical relation of the 
various elements toward each other, just as we find 
in the psychology of man, and especially in the life 
of the sexes. Goethe, in his classical romance, Affin- 
ities, compared the relation of a pair of lovers with 
the phenomenon of the same name in the formation 
of chemical combinations. The irresistible passion 
that draws Edward to the sympathetic Ottilia, or 
Paris to Helen, and leaps over all bounds of reason 
and morality, is the same powerful 'unconscious' ( ?) 
attractive force which impels the living spermatozoon 
to force an entrance into the ovum in the fertilization 
of the egg of the animal or plant — the same impetuous 
movement which unites two atoms of hydrogen to one 
atom of oxygen for the formation of a molecule of 
water. This fundamental unity of affinity in the 
whole of nature, from the simplest chemical process 
to the most complicated love story, was recognized 
by the great Greek scientist, Empedocles, in the fifth 
century B. C, in his theory of 'the love and hate of 
the elements.' It receives empirical affirmation from 
the interesting progress of cellular psychology, the 
great significance of which we have only learned to 
appreciate in the last thirty years. On those phe- 
nomena we base our conviction that even the atom 
is not without a rudimentary form of sensation and 



34 INTRODUCTION. 

will, or, as it is better expressed, of feeling {aesthesis) 
and inclination (tropesis) — that is, a universal 'soul' 
of the simplest character. The same must be said of 
the molecules which are composed of two or more 
atoms. Further combinations of different kinds of 
these molecules give rise to simple and, subsequently, 
complex chemical compounds, in the activity of which 
the same phenomena are repeated in a more compli- 
cated form." 

I have already shown that science has fully 
demonstrated the indestructibility of matter and 
force, and the insepambleness of spirit and mat- 
ter; have fully proved that not one atom of matter 
can be destroyed when subjected to the most in- 
tense heat, or to any other process, whether phys- 
ical or chemical, known to man ; and that we have 
now reached the conclusion, compatible with the 
highest reason, that there is no other substance in 
all this universe than the atoms of matter and the 
imponderable ether. This latter part, the ether, 
once a mere hypothesis, is now known to have a 
positive existence. That the ego, or spirit of man, 
may have its existence as a gaseous or "aeriform 
being" is now proved to be one of the most gross 
and absurd superstitions. If there is a real ma- 
terialization of a bodily form it must necessarily 
partake of the nature of flesh and blood, otherwise 
it is a mere hallucination. This is humorously, 
though positively, shown by Haeckle in the follow- 
ing quotation: 

"Experimental physics has succeeded, during the 
last decade of the century, in reducing all gaseous 



INTRODUCTION. 35 

bodies to a liquid — most of them, also, to a solid — 
condition. Nothing more is needed than special ap- 
paratus, which exerts a violent pressure on the gases 
at a very low temperature. By this process not only 
the atmospheric elements, oxygen, hydrogen and ni- 
trogen, but even compound gases (such as carbonic- 
acid gas) and gaseous aggregates (like the atmo- 
sphere) have been changed from the gaseous to liquid 
form. In this way the 'invisible' substances have be- 
come 'visible' to all, and in a certain sense 'tangible.' 
With this transformation the mystic nimbus which 
formerly veiled the character of the gas in popular 
estimation — as an invisible body that wrought vis- 
ible effects — has entirely disappeared. If, then, the 
substance of the soul were really gaseous, it should 
be possible to liquify it by the application of a high 
pressure at a low temperature. We could then catch 
the soul as it 'breathed out' at the moment of death, 
condense it, and exhibit it in a boule as 'immortal 
fluid' (Fluidum animae immortale). By a further 
lowering of temperature and an increase of pressure 
it might be possible to solidify it — to produce 'soul 
snow.' The experiment has not yet succeeded." 

Having shown the utter absurdity of the soul 
of man existing as a gaseous being, with a size 
comparable to the human body, what then is the 
real nature of the soul? What is consciousness? 
What are we? We cannot conceive of anything 
that is not something. I think; I feel; I receive 
impressions from things without, then I, the ego, 
must be something, and if I am something, then I 
must have a real existence, must occupy space, 
must have quantity, quality and form. Thus far 
there has been no satisfactory answer to these ques- 



36 INTRODUCTION. 

tions, nor has any hypothesis, as yet, been formed 
that would enable us to gain an adequate concep- 
tion of the real nature or size of the ego, and which 
would explain the origin of consciousness. Flam- 
marion, in the introduction of his book, The Un- 
known, shows clearly the desire and conviction of 
immortality : 

"The universal and constant aspirations of all 
thinking human beings, the reverence and affectionate 
remembrance in which we hold the memory of our 
dead, the innate idea of a Day of Judgment, the feel- 
ings inherent in our consciousness, and in our intel- 
lect, the miserable incoherence between the destinies 
of men on earth compared with the mathematical 
order which regulates the universe, the bewildering 
impression we receive of the infinite and the eternal 
as we gaze into the starry heavens, and beneath all 
this our certainty of the permanent identity of our I 
(our own individual existence) notwithstanding per- 
petual changes in our bodies and in our brains — all 
conspire to create in us a conviction of the existence 
of the soul as an individual entity which will survive 
the destruction of our corporeal organism, and which 
must be immortal. 

"However this may be, scientific demonstration of 
all this has not yet been made, and physiologists 
teach us, on the contrary, that thought is a function 
of the brain ; that without a brain there is no thought, 
and that all dies when the body dies. In this there 
is disagreement between the ideal aspirations of hu- 
man nature and what we call positive science." 

Any theory of the Cosmos which would ex- 
plain the mystery of life and death — that would 
explain just what happens to the conscious ego 



INTRODUCTION. 37 

upon the dissolution of the human body — from 
what source and just how this consciousness enters 
the material body at the moment of conception — 
would at once form a "working hypothesis" for 
the explanation of every action or phenomena 
known to man. 

Science, through microscopic anatomy, has re- 
vealed that the human body is made up of mil- 
lions of millions of little bodies, or cells, that each 
of these little cells is the body of another being 
with a consciousness in a lesser degree comparable 
to our own. It is further known that each of these 
cells is divisible into smaller parts, or atoms, which 
also have a consciousness. 

In order to comprehend that our conception of 
size is determined by the units of measurement 
with which we compare other magnitudes, and 
that we can form no conception of absolute mag- 
nitude, I will illustrate by saying that a tiny atom 
of matter is practically as large as the great space 
enclosed by the visible universe, when both are 
compared to the great infinity of space. Infinity 
has such a wonderful being that any definite part 
of it is equal to the whole. 

Through the Light of Truth, the conviction 
has teen forced upon my consciousness that I, the 
individual existence, the ego, the conscious entity, 
which is my real self, is but one of these tiny 
atoms; that there is nothing else in the make-up 



38 INTRODUCTION. 

of the ego of man except one tiny atom, who rules 
the many hosts of atoms who form the body. 

f The ego of man dwells in the right of the two 
central lobes of the brain and is surrounded by a 
host of other atoms, which, with it, are encased in 
that small boney cavity situated to the right of 
the center of the head. The atoms surrounding the 
ego, or ruling atom, are connected with all parts 
of the body and brain through the sensory nerves, 
which are made up of hosts of atoms, and bring 
to the central consciousness impressions from 
the senses. At the left of the center of the 
head there is another similar boney cavity, con- 
taining another similar host of atoms, and connect- 
ed to those surrounding the ego by a special "cord" 
of atoms. These hosts of atoms in the left boney 
cavity surround a central conscious atom, who is a 
companion self to the real ego, and which is termed 
the subjective or unconscious mind, and who has 
absolute control over those functions of the body 
called involuntary, and who, in fact, is the creator 
and sustainer of the whole human body. It, how- 
ever, merely directs the hosts of "cells" and "at- 
oms" who make up the body, through its control 
over the various involuntary organs, and is under 
the control of the ego, or normal mind in so far as 
the latter may control the action of the former 
through its power over the voluntary muscular mo- 
tor system. But in the main the normal mind has 
no free will; each act of the will is now known to be 



INTRODUCTION. 39 

fatally determined by the past as well as the pres- 
ent mental and physical condition of the individ- 
ual, and also further modified by the impressions 
coming from his outer environment. 

The ego, or normal mind, is the supreme ruler 
of the body, in everything that pertains to physical 
movements that are not functional activities, but 
it leaves the latter and all other details of the "life 
process" to its companion ego, or subjective mind. 

That ego which has become the conscious atom 
of man has its incarnation in one of the little ani- 
macules found in the male spermarium. Its com- 
panion ego, or subjective mind commences its 
present incarnation in a female ovum or egg. That 
this latter part is really more vital to the exist- 
ence of the embryo being is shown by the fact that 
but one egg is formed in the female, at certain 
periods, while untold millions of male cells are 
formed and wasted at each conception, and but one 
has the fortune to penetrate the ovum, except in 
the case of twins or triplets. 

"The human ovum, like that of all other animals, 
is a single cell, and this tiny globular egg cell (about 
the 120th of an inch in diameter) has just the same 
characteristic appearance as that of all other vivi- 
parous organisms. The little ball of protoplasm is 
surrounded by a thick, transparent, finely reticuled 
membrane, called the zona pellucida; even the little, 
globular, germinal vesicle (the cell-nucleus), which 
is enclosed in the protoplasm (the cell-body), is the 
same size and the same qualities as in the rest of 



40 INTRODUCTION. 

mammals. The same applies to the active sperma- 
tozoa of the male, the minute, threadlike, ciliated 
cells of which millions are found in every drop of 
the seminal fluid; on account of their lifelike move- 
ments they were previously taken to be forms of life, 
as the name indicates (spermatozoa — sperm animals). 
Moreover, the origin of both these important sexual 
cells in their respective organs is ine same in man 
as in the other mammals; both the ova in the ovary 
of the female and the spermatozoa in the spermarium 
of the male arise in the same fashion — they always 
come from cells, which are originally derived from 
the coelous epithelium, the layer of cells which clothes 
the cavity of the body. 

"The most important moment in the life of every 
man, as in that of all other complex animals, is the 
moment in which he begins his individual existence; 
it is the moment when the sexual cells of both parents 
meet and coalesce for the formation of a single sim- 
ple cell. This new cell, the impregnated egg cell, is 
the individual stem cell (the cytula), the continued 
segmentation of which produces the cells of the ger- 
minal layers and the gastrula. With the formation 
of this cytula, hence in the process of conception it- 
self, the existence of the personality, the independent 
individual, commences. This ontogenic fact is. su- 
premely important, for the most far-reaching conclu- 
sions may be drawn from it. In the first place, we 
have a clear perception that man, like all the other 
complex animals, inherits all his personal character- 
istics, bodily and mental, from his parents; and, fur- 
ther, we come to the momentous conclusion that the 
new personality which arises thus can lay no claim 
to 'immortality.' (The italics are mine.) 

"Hence, the minute processes of conception and 
sexual generation are of the first importance. We 



INTRODUCTION. 41 

are, however, only familiar with their details since 
1875, when Oscar Hertwig, my pupil and fellow- 
traveler at that time, began his researches into the 
impregnation of the egg of the sea-urchin at Ajaccio, 
in Corsica. The beautiful capital of the island in 
which Napoleon the Great was born, in 1769, was 
also the spot in which tue mysteries of animal con- 
ception were carefully studied for the first time in 
their most important aspects. Hertwig found that 
the one essential element in conception is the co- 
alescence of the two sexual cells and their nuclei. 
Only one out of the millions of male ciliated cells 
which press round the ovum penetrates to its nucleus. 
The nuclei of both cells, of the spermatozoon and of 
the ovum, drawn together by a mysterious force, 
which we take to be a chemical sense-activity, related 
to smell, approach each other and melt into one. 
Thus, by the sensitive perception of the sexual nuclei, 
following upon a kind of 'erotic chemicotropism,' a 
new cell is formed, which unites in itself the inher- 
ited qualities of both parents; the nucleus of the 
spermatozoon conveys the paternal features, the nu- 
cleus of the ovum those of the mother, to the stem 
cell, from which the child is to be developed. That 
applies both to the bodily and to the mental charac- 
teristics." (The italics are mine.) (Haechel, in 
"The Riddle of the Universe," page 62.) 

From the moment of conception when the male 
and female sexual cells coalesce, the dual existence 
of the entity begins. Not that every other atom 
which helps to build up the body is not a con- 
scious sentient being like the "two rulers" of the 
body of atoms, but I, among a host of others who 
have "been faithful in a few thinsrs" have been 



42 INTRODUCTION. 

made the "master over many things." Many were 
called at the moment of conception, millions of 
them, but I alone was chosen to be the ruler of 
the new "world," which from the moment of con- 
ception receives the "material" to build its em* 
bryo "body" from the mother, until .finally its 
body enters into a new existence as a little child, 
and as the time passes on it attracts to itself a 
host of other atoms which form the countless num- 
ber of cells which make up an adult form. 

When by any means the host of atoms which 
forms its "body" is dissolved, the ego, if it is partly 
in harmony with that Great All, is by that subtle 
harmony drawn up to a higher realm and enters 
the presence of the Great Euler, and if it 
wishes to become fully in harmony with 
that Great God, thus being considered wor- 
thy of His Divine Mercy and Love, it may 
dwell forevermore with him; but if it has not lis- 
tened to "that still small voice" of its "guardian 
angel" during its existence as a human ego, it is 
beaten with stripes of ignorance, which blinds and 
burdens it down with darkness and is drawn back 
again to those burdened like itself, there to pass 
through further incarnations until it may become 
in tune with the All and be drawn back again to 
those purer realms above. 

If the ego of man is not at the present time im- 
mortal, then, from our very conception of immor- 
tality, it could never become immortal. An im- 



INTRODUCTION. 43 

mortal being can, obviously, have no beginning or 
ending to its existence. From our very conception 
of consciousness we cannot conceive it other than 
as an immortal attribute of an indestructible, in- 
divisible, tangible, immortal atom of God Sub- 
stance, neither can we conceive how two atoms 
may unite their consciousness in any other way 
than by being en rapport by contact or telepa- 
thicly through the medium of the ether, which is 
the impressible homogeneous God Substance. 

If, then, we accept the proposition that the ego 
of man is an immortal atom of the Great All, 
which through the Light of Truth, God Given, I 
now proclaim, then there is no death. Do you 
hear? I say, THERE IS NO DEATH. I boldly 
assert, without fear of successful contradiction, 
that science through its demonstration of the utter 
impossibility of the destruction of one atom of sub- 
stance, has positively proved that there is no such 
thing as death. The conception and belief in death 
is the grossest and most absurd superstition that 
ever clouded the consciousness of man. 

There is no action at a distance without con- 
tact; every impression received by the conscious- 
ness comes from immediate contact or through the 
medium of the ether, which is such an impres- 
sible substance that it conveys or transmits every 
movement given to it in whatever direction the 
impulse is given to it. This high sense of feeling 
which I will term "psychic feeling," and which is 



44 INTRODUCTION. 

comparable to Omniscience, conclusively shows 
that we are all One. We would further infer that 
when an atom is surrounded by other atoms, that 
are "asleep" or silent and motionless, and if no 
impressions were coming to it from the ether, it 
would also become "unconscious," and that its de- 
gree of consciousness from the minimum, or un- 
consciousness to the maximum, or Omniscience, 
depends upon the quality of the consciousness of 
those atoms with which it is en rapport, or in 
"tune." And thus by becoming en rapport or in 
tune with the Great All do we approach Omni- 
science; for by coming in tune with another con- 
sciousness and receiving impressions from it, mem- 
ory, through a process known as the "law of neu- 
monics," the "association of ideas/* or "represen- 
tation of past experience," is awakened, and this 
gives rise to that feeling that we have experienced 
that sensation before, or that we are receiving a 
telepathic communication. 

The first evolution of the ego commenced when 
it gathered to itself other associate atoms (a 
brain), whose office was to remember all the im- 
pressions coming to the central consciousness. 
This concomitant acquired by the central atom 
gave it the power, by its ever ready aid to memory, 
to operate upon its environment with "reason." 
And soon as man became able to record his thought 
by means of "written symbols," and made an "im- 
mortal" record for the benefit of offspring, the 



INTRODUCTION. 45 

reason of the succeeding generations became more 
highly developed. It is through the aid of books 
that man is slowly but surely approaching Om- 
niscience. 

We know that our arms and limbs may be am- 
putated, all our organs of sight, hearing, smell and 
taste be destroyed and part of the brain and other 
organs be removed and still we have consciousness, 
may think and reason. We know, therefore, that 
the material body is not our real self. Mathe- 
matically, then, we can demonstrate that we, the 
ego, are the last atom. I remember when I was 
a child I frequently had a peculiar dream. In a 
state comparable to the illumination, I saw a host 
of other forms like myself, surrounding me in 
every direction but all seemed dead and still, and 
I would awake in horror, saying, "they are all 
killed but me." I now, in the light of the theory 
I have offered concerning the ego, in a way under- 
stand its meaning. 

Hudson, in his Law of Mental Medicine, posits 
that sleep "is the isolation of the brain cells from 
physical contact." This hypothesis is fully dis- 
cussed by him in the chapter on "The Mechanism 
of Inhibition" showing its application to the in- 
hibition of pain and other sensations, and to this 
work I refer the reader to a full discussion of this 
interesting subject. 

The gathering of a host of atoms into a har- 
monious "body/' the evolution of the special sense 



46 INTRODUCTION. 

organs, especially the eye, which has such a highly 
developed sense of feeling, that in the impression 
that it receives from without, and the distinction 
with which it perceives the form of masses of 
atoms, so nearly equivalent to a real, miraculous 
process of seeing would seem to illustrate that the 
atoms who have evolved by their association, this 
highly developed sense organ, have a conscious- 
ness and intellect comparable to Omniscience. 

The consciousness of each atom, alone, proves 
that it has a soul that is immortal and divine ; that 
at one time it was in harmony and formed a part 
of the Great Omniscient All. And while the mem- 
ory of the atom may be blurred and obscure by 
the eternity of its existence since it was separated 
from the All, yet the remembrance of each atom of 
the time when it formed a part of Omniscience, is 
latent within its consciousness, often arising to 
the surface when any condition or question is pre- 
sented to its mind, giving it the power to perceive 
the essential truth of being. This action is called 
psychic or that abnormalty of mind synonymous 
with genius. Intuition is the perceiving of rela- 
tionships or connections between conditions or 
facts that are impressed upon the present con- 
sciousness by a recollection of an experience of a 
former existence, when similar facts and condi- 
tions were a prominent part in its former life. 
And from recalling the outcome of its former ex- 
periences, it is now morally certain that the out- 



INTRODUCTION. 47 

come will be similar to that of the former case. 
Dreams, then, may once have been a real experi- 
ence; they may be assumed to be the subjective 
recollection of the latent memories of the ego. 
When the ego is, apparently, asleep, it may be 
merely in a state comparable to reverie, or abstrac- 
tion, while living over its past experience. This 
might be inferred from the condition or process 
needed to restore the ego to its present conscious- 
ness, and which has given rise to the theory that 
time has but a subjective existence. We find that 
consciousness suspended in the time of "sleep" or 
coma, requires some impression or suggestion from 
its present consciousness before it can become 
awake to its present existence. Ordinarily your 
consciousness is assured by such a simple impres- 
sion that were your attention not called to the fact, 
you would hardly know that such assurance was 
required. Upon the first awakening in a strange 
place and on the first arousing of the present men- 
tal faculties, you do not know for the time whether 
you are awake or dreaming ; some impression from 
your present state is required before you are able 
to locate yourself, as it were, or to know whether 
you are really experiencing the sensations and im- 
pressions which are now coming to you, or whether 
it is but some dream memory of a past experience: 
And often while dreaming you will have an 
argument with yourself, and try to convince your 
own consciousness that your dream is a reality, by 



48 INTRODUCTION. 

bringing up the memory of a former dream ( ?) to 
prove that the seemingly inconsistent impressions 
are really consistent; and so excited does the ego 
become when confronted by a seeming proof of 
an absurd conclusion, that something seems to 
awake it from sleep. Thus, we know -that until 
reason and memory inform one how he came to 
be in a strange place he will not become fully 
awake. Then, as from that deep sleep of death, 
the spirit emerges from its untenable body ; unless 
it is enveloped in a "wedding garment" of knowl- 
edge; unless it recalls an experience of a former 
flight through the realms of the spirit; it will be 
unclothed, speechless, standing in the outer dark- 
ness at the portals of the Great Unknown, there 
to wander about as in a dream until the last trum- 
pet heralds it into eternal life or banishes it to a 
second "death." 

Yet there is no real death; eternal life means 
eternal light. What we know as death is but ig- 
norance, the darkness which fills this bottomless 
abyss. We are atoms out of harmony with the 
All, lost angels of God, groping blindly among the 
illusions and shadows that fill this outer dark- 
ness. These illusions may disappear, may dissolve 
like the shadows when the vibrations of light are 
all around, but it is only the illusions that die. 
There are just as many conscious, sentient, im- 
mortal atoms in the great infinitude of space as 
there ever were. You, I, all of us, are but one of 



INTRODUCTION. 49 

these atoms, each an angel of the Most High God; 
but we are all cast away and lost in this bottom- 
less pit. And there is nothing else in all this place 
below but these many atoms, who are floating about 
as constellations in a great homogeneous substance 
(the ether) which gives to all the means to com- 
municate with each other and with their God. 

It would seem that, although there is one atom 
that rules the whole body, each of the other atoms 
who help to form the body are partly conscious of 
every thought that passes in the mind of the ego, 
through the channels of communication opened up 
by the highly sensitive atoms of the nerves. Each 
atom, apparently, desires to rest or sleep; this de- 
sire, however, may be only a desire for change, a 
desire to introspect, or to recall some past condi- 
tion of its existence. Even in inorganic matter 
we find this same tired feeling, or desire to relax 
from strain is a common occurrence. This is 
shown in what is called the "electrolysis" of metals. 
Cables of bridges become weakened from the con- 
tinual strain and must be replaced after a certain 
length of time. If, however, the metal is remelted 
or subjected to a high temperature, its original 
strength is restored. 

The many peculiar lapses of memory, arising 
from a blow or fever ; the various abnormal condi- 
tions like mesmerism, hypnotism, demonical pos- 
session, insanity, idiocy, may either be accounted 
for by the ego being unable to awake from its 



50 INTRODUCTION. 

sleep, or else overpowered by some other conscious 
atom, who has assumed control. These periodic 
changes in which the ego forgets his past existence 
entirely, and appears to be another person for a 
time and then changes back to his former con- 
sciousness, forgetting the intermediate existence, 
is accounted for by assuming that first one and 
then another atom becomes the central intelligence. 

The following note, taken from the New York 
Sun of a recent date, is a fair illustration of this 
latter condition. The entire article is too long to 
be inserted here : * 

"The Rev. Thomas Carson Hanna, a minister hav- 
ing a parish in Connecticut, while returning home in 
his buggy one evening, tried to step out to adjust the 
harness. In doing so he lost his footing and fell for- 
ward on his head. He was picked up unconscious 
and carried to the house of a friend. 

"When he was restored to his senses several hours 
later he awoke, not as the Rev. Mr. Hanna, but with a 
new personality altogether. He was a full-grown 
man, with all a man's physical equipment, but his 
mind was as blank as that of a new born infant. 

"He had a fresh personality which had to be 
taught how to walk, how to eat, which knew nothing 
of what the world contained, which had no sense of 
the difference between animate and inanimate things, 
and out of which a different sort of person entirely 
could have been made. 

$ $ $ :£ ' $ 

"For nearly two months he remained in this state, 
gradually acquiring a new personality and having no 
remembrance whatever of his former self, his rela- 



*See Note 5, Page 205. 



INTRODUCTION. 51 

tives and his accomplishments. He had been a highly 
educated and well-read clergyman. Now he had to 
be taught how to speak, to learn the alphabet; in 
fact, to go through a child's training, though his fac- 
ulties already developed in his previous existence, as 
it might be termed, enabled him to learn with a 
rapidity which would have been marvelous in a child. 

"At the end of seven weeks, as the result of the 
continued efforts of the physicians attending him to 
awaken his former personality, he fell into a deep 
sleep, from which he emerged again mentally the 
Rev. Mr. Hanna, with no remembrance whatever of 
the occurrences during the weeks following his acci- 
dent and no idea at all of the second personality he 
had acquired. 

"This return to his primary state, as the physi- 
cians called it, lasted less than an hour. He fell 
asleep again and awakened in his second and devel- 
oping personality, with his memory a blank as to his 
real self. During the next week he was alternately 
the highly educated clergyman and the man learn- 
ing how to use a new life. He would go to sleep as 
one self and awaken as the other. 

"Finally, perhaps as the result of the continued 
efforts which were made to awaken one personality 
to a sense of the other, he himself became conscious 
of his dual existence. There came a time when for 
a brief period he felt the two selves within his body, 
and he himself said afterward he realized that he 
could be whichever of the two he wished and felt im- 
pelled to make a choice. 

$ $ $ $ $ 

"The whole state of dual personality and transi- 
tion lasted from April 15 to June 14. It is said to be, 
in the language of the physicians, the first case of 
complete amneria and dual personality ever under 



52 INTRODUCTION. 

direct scientific observation and experimental control, 
and it has been made the chief feature in a learned 
work on "Multiple Personality" recently written by 
Prof. Boris Sidis of Harvard and Dr. Simon P. Good- 
heart of Yale, and of other profound treatises. Other 
persons will see in it, perhaps, the nearest actual ap- 
proach to Robert Louis Stevenson's conception of a 
dual personality in 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.' " 

Illumination is the result of the long and con- 
tinued disuse of the senses until the ego, appar- 
ently, becomes separated from its present existence 
and recalls only those past experiences when it 
was the same as the great Whole. Thus the ego 
thinks that it is God. However, as one after his 
illuminations, seldom recalls his subjective revel- 
ings, this subjective condition has no practical 
benefit to the present consciousness. The fact I 
most strongly desire to impress upon the minds of 
those who are thinking of developing a higher or 
psychic consciousness, is that the highest faculty 
of the ego lies in its ability to be at least partly 
conscious of its present conditions during its sub- 
jective revelings. 

They who are "absent minded" have but placed 
a subjective "atom" in control of brain and body, 
that the "body" may be guided and directed by 
the subjective atom, that they may think the 
"thoughts of God," that God who is within the 
soul of man. I pass safely along the crowded 
streets, seeing naught, feeling naught, but my 
many thoughts within. Herein is the ego aided 



INTRODUCTION. 53 

by educating a subordinate atom to rule the body. 
And who only calls upon the real ruler when his 
superior knowledge is needed to combat with the 
difficulties of its physical environment. 

Before I had reached the age of 12 years I 
frequently experienced "illumination," that is, I 
became able to subjectively watch the processes of 
my mind that are usually termed unconscious, and 
thus at an early age I was positive that I was 
something separate and distinct from my "body" 
or even my "brain." This "illumination" arose 
partly from two causes ; one was that I always had 
a very obstinate will and with stubborn persistency 
would inquire into the reason or underlying cause 
for any peculiar or abnormal mental phenomena; 
the other was that during my childhood I experi- 
enced very serious sick spells in which it seemed 
that I would not live. This sickness or fever 
brought on from cold, or what is usually termed 
"chills and fever" in the start, always made me 
"light headed." After a time, from the stubborn 
refusal of my will to give up to these "light 
headed" periods and become unconscious, I found 
that though the "demon" of fever would master 
me and usurp my whole realm of brain and body, 
making it do and say the most foolish and incon- 
sistent things, and though I was powerless to re- 
sist the invasion of this "demon" who now had as- 
sumed control over my body, I knew that it was 



54 INTRODUCTION. 

not myself who was the author of the "crazy" 
words and actions of the "body." It was from 
this very faculty of keeping "awake" during the 
feverish periods, that I discovered the real process 
of obsession, or insanity, which I have accounted 
the greatest discovery concerning myself that I 
have thus far made. Whenever I approached these 
feverish periods, I seemed to grow very tired and 
weak, and this feeling was accompanied by a de- 
sire to rest or sleep ; while in this state something, 
which in the start seemed to be my very self, would 
suggest thoughts to me that were inconsistent with 
my whole past experience; thus there would be 
two thoughts in my mind that were directly oppo- 
site or antagonistic to each other. This condition 
of mind is comparable to that of Christian in Pil- 
grim's Progress, "who was so confounded that he 
did not know his own voice," and Bunyan further 
says : "And I perceived, just when he was come 
over against the mouth of the burning pit, one of 
the wicked ones got behind him, and stepped up 
softly to him, and whisperingly suggested many 
grievous blasphemies to him, which he verily 
thought had proceeded from his own mind. This 
put Christian more to it than anything that he 
met with before, even to think that he should now 
blaspheme Him that he loved so much before. Yet 
if he could have helped it, he would not have done 
it, but he had not the discretion either to stop his 



INTRODUCTION. 55 

ears, or to know from whence these blasphemies 
came." 

The only way that I could "stop my ears" was 
by becoming unconscious, and that was what I 
stoutly rebelled against doing with the whole force 
of my will power, but as soon as I perceived "from 
whence these blasphemies came," that is, that they 
did not come from my real self, or ego, I was com- 
plete master of the situation, and though from my 
very weakness I was compelled to abdicate the 
"throne of reason," yet I was fully conscious of 
every act of the "demon" who had overpowered 
me; and when the "demon," fever, had completely 
tired the body and itself out by its ravings and all 
had "become asleep," I would arise and overpower 
the "demon" while it was asleep and again acquire 
possession of my "throne." 

After this discovery whenever a "demon" 
thought would come to me I knew that I must be 
on my guard or he would again overpower me, and 
knowing that I was weak and needed rest, I would 
laugh at the thoughts that came to me, and would 
turn the "demon" away while I and my "body" 
took a much needed rest. Since this discovery 
concerning the process of abnormal mental con- 
trol, though since that time I have often suffered 
from "fevers," I have not lost my "throne" for a 
moment. The limitations of this book will not 
permit a full discussion of the different abnormal 



56 INTRODUCTION. 

mental conditions arising from reason (the ego) 
abdicating its "throne;" but if the hypothesis, 
which I have offered concerning the ego is correct, 
an investigation into the phenomena of dreams 
and other subjective conditions should give start- 
ling and widespread results. 

One word more. I wish to decide once and 
forever about the individuality of the soul. In 
doing this I will assume that my readers have a 
slight knowledge of mathematics; at least, I will 
assume that they believe that two and two make 
four. I believe that all my readers are so posi- 
tive of this fact that they would throw this vol- 
ume down in disgust if I were to make the state- 
ment that two and two at any time could, by any 
stretch of the imagination, make but one. We 
have fully shown that each atom is a conscious, 
immortal entity; then, two atoms and two atoms 
united together in any conceivahle way must al- 
ways make four atoms, and we are certain that 
no matter how many more atoms than these col- 
lect together to form a large body of atoms, this 
bod}^ will only be a collection of individual atoms. 
This principle would remain the same whether 
it were atoms, or apples, or houses, or people, that 
had become massed together, each entity would 
always have its own individuality. 

We cannot see how that your consciousness 
and mine could in any way unite and blend to- 



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INTRODUCTION. 57 

gether so that both would form but one conscious- 
ness or one individuality. Thus through dem- 
onstrating the immortality of the ego we have also 
demonstrated that it must keep its individuality, 
formed by the memory of its past experience, for- 
ever. 



THE VISION. 

"For as the lightning cometh out of the East, anSs 
shineth even unto the West; so shall also the coming of 
the Son of man be." (Matt. XXIV, 27.) 

I slept, and lo ! From out the Great Unseen 
A form of "life" like to the Son of man 

Came unto me, while shone around my couch 
A light as though a million suns were near. 

Then thundered loud a voice, "The Lord is come!" 
While sight and hearing fled from me away 

And felt I then a sense of moving up 

As though borne on some mighty wings of "life." 

And opened was my eyes, and I beheld 
Far down below a dark and awful void, 

Which seemed as though it would have drawn me down 
Had not a shining light wrapped me around. 

And, awed by that great "bottomless abyss," 

I did forget the presence of my guide, 
Until I felt a glowing warmth around 

And saw him standing at my very side. 



60 THE VISION. 

While everywhere about his form divine, 

In tongues of fire the word "Omniscience" shone, 

But as they came more closely to my sight 

They changed, it seemed, and read "Eternal Light." 

But so enwrapped was he in raiment bright 
That I perceived naught but its light divine, 

Nor of myself could I discover shape; 
I, too, had passed into a form of light 

Which seemed to give me such a pleasing warmth, 
And filled me with a thousand ecstasies. 

And while I looked from out the form there came 
A "still small voice" that was most sweet and clear: 

"0 favored form, thy longings all are known 
To that great God who loveth even thee, 

And I am sent to take thee hence with me 
And show thee there life's greatest mystery, 

Where death is not, where time no more exists, 
Where every form there hath immortal life 

And space is bounded by thy thought alone, 
Where all is peace and harmony and love. 

But first we must go back from where we came 
And there destroy "illusion" from thy mind, 

Which is called "death," but death is only sleep, 
Brought on by this "illusion of the sense." 



THE VISION. 61 

Then on we moved, swift as the lightning's flash, 
Through caverns deep and measureless to man, 

Then passed into a blinding sea of light, 

Where moved about a million forms of "life."* 

And far beneath us in the depths there shone 

A shape of light which looked most like the "world." 

First large, then larger grew this earthly shape, 
While even men appeared upon its face. 

Who seemed like giant trees who walked about 
On earth that seemed to fill the whole of space, 

And entered they into abodes so vast, 

Their chimneys seemed to touch the stars above. 

And men became so large and filled with "life" 
That as we passed more swiftly toward them 

They of a sudden seemed to disappear, 

And naught was there but many forms of light. 

Some moving swiftly back and forth through space, 
Some moving onward in a steady stream, 

While others moved about a central form, 

And some would pause, then start away again. 

And as the forms of light moved swiftly on 
Sweet strains of music came unto my ear, 

And, moved by this rare melody, we passed 
Into that mighty throng of moving forms. 

*See Note Page 95. 



62 THE VISION. 

And by some subtle rythm we were drawn 
With speed of "life" into a stream of light, 

Then near we came unto a mighty "dome," 
Walled all around with many million forms. * 

That were less bright than those that stood within. 

Those in the wall formed groups of millions each 
And back and forth between these many groups 

Moved lesser groups of forms that shone more bright. 

And those between, and those, the darker groups, 
Obscured the view into the space beyond, 

While in the center of the space thus formed 

Vast throngs more bright moved rythmicly about. 

Which filled the dome with music rare and sweet, 
While all moved on in one great harmony, 

And as the music sounded through the hall, 
It seemed to stir the countless hosts about. 

And while we stood among those mighty hosts, 
A great commotion in the wall took place, 

And through two partings in the dome we saw 
The forms of men move in the distant space. 

Which, drawing nearer to us, did enlarge, 
Until they seemed to fill the whole outside, 

Then disappeared, and all we saw was forms 
Like those who did encompass us around. 

*See Illustration Opposite Page 57. 



THE VISION. 63 

Then forms of beasts and fowls passed us before, 
So slowly that we scarce could see them move, 

And as they passed more closely to our view 
Naught could be seen but many forms of light. 

I knew not what to make of this vast sight 
That proved "illusion" as it came more near, 

But true, I think a light commenced to dawn 
"Within my mind as I beheld that scene. 

And, turning trembling to my guide, I begged 
That he might then explain this mystery, 

And tell me by what name this hall was known, 
What meant these hosts within, and all around. 

Why some were dark, and why they moved about 
In groups, with smaller groups between, 

And why those brighter forms moved back and forth 
Through that great hall in one great harmony. 

Then answered he: "This mighty hall you see 
Now filled with multitudes of moving forms 

And walled about with duller forms of light, 
Is often termed the 'temple of the soul.' 

"And all these hosts that move about within, 
And seemed to be much brighter than the rest, 

Are those who have been beaten with few stripes, 
And they by thee are called 'the brain of man.' 



64 THE VISION. 

"And this sweet music which doth come to thee, 
And stirs about the forms within the wall, 

Is but the voice of all those hosts within, 
And it is called the 'language of the soul/ 

"And those two spaces in the wall beyond, 

Through which thou saw the many forms approach, 

Then disappear before thy startled gaze, 

Was named by thee the 'windows of the soul.' 

"Those darker groups that make the mighty wall, 
And forming thus the 'temple of the soul,' 

Are known by man as 'microscopic cells,' 

While those that move between them are the 'nerves.' 

"And all those hosts that move. about within, 

And those more dark who form the outward wall, 

And who, it seems, have lost some 'light of truth,' 
Are angels, clothed with 'immortality.' 

"None other forms but these exist below 

The mighty realms above, where God doth dwell, 

And these are they who form the many shapes 

That thou hast known, and 'atoms' they are called. 

"But all are lost and move about in space, 

Where that great light of God doth never come, 

And all the light they have with them comes forth 
From out the garb that He hath given them. 




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THE VISION. 65 

"God did decree this for their punishment, 

That they should be from out his presence cast, 

Because against his 'Word' they did rebel, 
And made a discord in his mighty realm. 

"But through the pleading of the 'Word' of God, 
Which is his son, his most beloved son, 

The 'Word' was sent to find the angels lost, 
And bring them back again unto their God. 

"Who would forgive, and free them from all sin, 
If they desire to come once more to Him, 

And would obey, forevermore, the voice 
Of him whom God in mercy sent to them." 

My guide and I passed in the mighty dome, 
And entered in a smaller group of "cells," 

Until we came unto a central form, 

Who nearly was as bright as he my guide. 

And this bright form, to which all other forms 
Some message brought, and who did seem to rule 

The many hosts, who formed its "body" vast, 
Is called by man the "ego" or the "soul." 

But every "cell" did also have a "soul," 

Who were more bright than these, who were the 
"nerves," 
And thus each "cell" the "ego" did obey, 

When it a message through the "nerves" did send. 

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66 THE VISION. 

Then even as we came unto the "soul," 

A great commotion moved the hosts within, 

And awful shook the mighty wall around, 

While thundered loud a voice, "The Lord is come." 

Then hosts of forms who were like "souls of cells," 

Led by the "ego" who did rule them all, 
Passed rapidly from out that mighty shape, 

And moved away to higher realms above. 

Then that vast dome, "the temple of the soul," 
Dissolved away. And he who led me there 

Then told me that this great catastrophe 
Was but the "passing of the soul of man." 

Then follow we the "soul" and "souls of cells," 
And move again through that great sea of light, 

Then on the wings of "life" we pass above, 
And soon have left the "universe" behind. 

Through depths of space, through myriads of worlds, 
Through depths of space and worlds again we pass, 

Until we come to a great void in space, 

From which all forms of "life" have fled away. 

And farther on we see a wall of light* 

Which half divides the whole infinity. 
My guide speaks low and trembling is his voice; 

"Beyond this wall of light the great God dwells." 

See Note 2, Page 97. 



THE VISION. 67 

Then passing through the many forms of light, 
Who guard the entrance to the Great Unseen, 

Who thus divide all space into great parts, 
We enter in the realms of the Most High. 

Wondrous realm. Great Almighty All. 

blessed thought. favor most divine. 
That I have been, a weak, unworthy form, 

Permitted now to hear His voice again. 

Hard by the wall a multitude of forms, 
Which I perceive are those I saw before, 

And who have come unto the judgment seat, 
There to be judged according to their deeds. 

And to account for every act of theirs, 

While they have moved beyond the wall of light 

Which separates the Euler from those forms 
Who have not heeded all his great commands. 

hark, I hear a loud and mighty voice, 
That shakes the very wall of forms about : 

"Depart from me until thou hast atoned 
For errors which I sent thee hence before. 

"Go hence again and form the 'elements/ 

And as thy stripes are healed and thou dost gain 

More knowledge, which is 'light/ that thou may help 
To purify that 'bottomless abyss/ 



68 THE VISION. 

"Thou may become again the 'soul of things/ 
Then do my will while in the depths below, 

That when thou comest here again to me, 

Thou mayest then from punishment be free." 

Then opened wide the mighty wall of forms, 
And those condemned obeyed His just decree, 

And fled away to follow the command 
Of Him that they had dared to disobey. 

hark, He speaks. The Lord hath spoke to me. 
"0 son, hast thou forgot the Lord thy God ? 

1 heard thy voice, that thou desired to know 
Again of me and thus a form was sent 

"To bring thee here, that thou might know again 
That if thou would, henceforth, obey my will 

Thou then mightst leave the darker depths below 
And come again and dwell forever here. 

"Go back and tell those other 'shapes' below 
What thou hast seen, and teach them of my way, 

That thou may help to hasten on the time 
When all may come again and dwell with me. 

"Have mercy on those 'lower shapes' below, 
Which 'men' despise, because they are not 'men,' 

For all that moveth in the realms within 
Are angels lost and must salvation gain. 



THE VISION. 69 

"Go hence and then this message loud proclaim, 
That I, the Lord, the God who ruleth all, 

Doth love each form, and doth desire that they 
Might hear my voice and come again to me." 

Thus spoke the Lord, and all the depths around 
Seemed then to echo back his mighty voice, 

While countless hosts commenced to sing for joy 
That one more "sinner" had come back to God. 

grateful I, how merciful is God, 

To give me this new hope that I may gain 

A full atonement for all errors past, 

And welcome in his presence come again. 

With joy I pass through that great wall of forms, 
And let my guide lead me to depths below, 

That I may serve the great Almighty God, 
While dwelling in the "temple of the soul." 

And then my guide will ever be with me, 

For thus it seems that he must bring a "soul" 

From out the depths and its atonement make 
Before that he may his salvation gain. 

And when I would have moved back to the place 
From where I came, my guide restrains and bids 

Me come with him where forms of light produce 
Again the history of the "universe." 



70 THE VISION. 

And, taking me far in the depths of space, 

Where we beheld two "suns" made np of forms, 

Approach each other with a speed so great 

That space, it seemed, shook fearful when they met. 

And what before had been two shapes of light 
Had now become a great and mighty "mist;" 

A "chaos" filled with moving forms of "life," 
All in discord and filled with great dismay. * 

And this great mass made up of forms of life, 

And which before had formed two mighty "suns," 

Was made to turn most rapidly about, 

Because the "suns" in meeting sidelong struck. 

And now this mass revolving fast about, 
Moved slowly on in that direction, which 

The brighter "sun" had moved before they met, 
Which seemed to be to some great distant "star." ** 

Then, coming closer to these forms around, 
I did perceive that some were marked about 

With rings of black, which seemed to weigh them down, 
And which my guide explained was "ignorance." 

And were the "marks" which God had given them 
Because that they had disobeyed his "word." 

But those whose errors had been counted less 

Were beaten with few stripes, and were more light. 

* Sea Illustration, Opposite Page 65. 
*» See Notes 3 and 4, Pages 98, 99. 



THE VISION. 71 

And every form at least had one dark band, 

And some were marked with half a hundred more, 

Which did account for those dark bands of light, 
Discovered by the aid of "spectroscope." 

And he who was my guide informed me then 
That they who had so many stripes of black 

Were burdened so with "darkness" that without 
The aid of lighter forms they could not move. 

And if they were but started once to move, 

They could not stop unless they met with forms 

Which bore as heavy burdens as their own, 
And this "inertia" made them suffer much. 

I counted half a hundred unlike forms, 

Who were weighed down with many burdens dark 

And polished so had all their stripes become 
That they "reflected" light from other forms. 

And while I watched, a mighty multitude 

Of forms most bright, did separate themselves 

From those more dark who seemed to stand aside 
To give more space to those who gathered there,, 

i 

A great "concourse of atoms" now had formed, * 
Not "fortuitous" though, for all it seemed 

Had some "design" as they assembled there 
And from their midst a melody arose. 



72 THE VISION. 

That seemed to draw from out the depths around 
A host of forms with few stripes as themselves, 

And unto whom were given some commands 
Which caused them all to swiftly move about. 

They then in groups commenced to separate 
Those forms who had the many burdens on, 

According to the number of their stripes, 

And each were given place where they must stand. 

And they themselves had not the strength to move, 
Because of those dark burdens which they bore, 

And thus they stood wherever they were placed 
By those who had been given the commands. 

And if one form by any means did try 

To move itself from out among the group, 

Where it had been commanded to be placed 

The forms of light around would force it back. 

And this was done, my guide to me explained: 
"Because these burdens on the darker forms 

^Eepelled' those brighter forms of light around, 
And hindered them from moving free about. 

"And thus these many unlike groups of forms, 
Together moved according to their stripes, 

Were made to stand in places by themselves, 
By that 'concourse of atoms' which had formed. 



THE VISION. 73 

"And those dark forms who have the many stripes, 
And which are formed in groups of many each, 

Was known to thee while in thy other state 
As 'metals/ as they did the light reflect. 

"And were most hard for thee to separate, 

And could be drawn into great streams of 'wire/ 

And some were hammered into sheets so thin 

That millions of them would not make an 'inch.' " 

And then I saw a score of other groups, 

Which had less stripes and thus had lesser weight, 

And which could move somewhat among themselves, 
But not alone like those whose stripes were few. 

And these to man are as "non-metals" known, 
As they do not as much reflect the light, 

And though they were once placed alone in groups, 
They have united with the other forms. 

And by uniting with the many groups, 

Which are unlike, though "elements" as they, 

They thus compound the many unlike things 
That now are known unto the "mind of man." 

And thus throughout that fast revolving mist 
Those burdened forms were separated all 

According to the number of their stripes, 

And thus from "chaos," "order" comes again. 



74 THE VISION. 

And while I looked, I heard a mighty sound, 
Where that "concourse of atoms" first had formed, 

Which was the voices of those many hosts, 

Rejoicing that they now had "order" gained. 

And as these rythmic waves swelled all around. 
Great hosts of forms did shape themselves about 

At every "node" or ending of each wave 
Whose length grew longer as it traveled on. 

And soon these many sphere shaped shells of forms 
Became great bands somewhat like "Saturn's rings" 

And these great rings of "elements" now formed, 
Revolved most swift around the central mass. 

And which itself turned rapidly around, 

As did the mighty mist when first it formed, 

And it now looked like that great "sun" we saw, 
Before it crashed into that darker "star." 

Soon each great ring now formed around the "sun," 

Did separate itself in many parts, 
And all the parts revolving "spheres" became, 

Which now are known to man as "asteroids." 

But most of these small "spheres" began to form 
Into one mass, that moved about the space 

Where that great ring had moved when first it formed, 
And thus the "planets" moved around their "sun." 



THE VISION. 75 

And just so long as from that central mass 
Of forms immortal, rythmic waves shall pass, 

So long must every "planet" move as fixed 

By those great waves, the voices of those hosts. 

While yet I look, some of those "asteroids" 

Which once had formed a ring about the "sun" 

Have now been caught by rythmic waves that come 
From out the mass that hath a "planet" formed. 

And thus around each "planet" there doth move 
One or more "spheres" just as the "planets" move 

Around the "sun." And these which once were called 
The "asteroids," are "satellites" become. 

Thus "order" out from "chaos" hath come forth, 
And every form in all that space around 

Now beats in tune with those great waves which come 
From out those mighty hosts which form the "sun." 

And borne upon these mighty rythmic waves 

Bright light is seen, which is the "Light of Truth ;" 

Which is the voices of these mighty hosts 

Who first the "concourse" in the center formed. 

And every form weighed down with "ignorance," 
Which is the burden of the stripes they bear, 

Doth hail with joy these mighty waves of light 
That seem to make their burdens lighter grow. 



76 THE VISION. 

And thus "the word, Omniscience" grows more bright 
Upon the garb which God hath given all, 

And which may heal the wounds from many stripes 
Of "ignorance," which was their punishment. 

And thus from out their "darkness" shines a light 
Forevermore, until that "perfect day" 

When they from "bands of darkness" will be free 
And be received back to the realms above. 

And thus from every form of life there comes 
A voice, an echo, rythmic waves of light, 

And every form who these "vibrations" feel 

Is drawn unto the forms from whence they come. 

Thus every form hath now "attraction" gained, 
Which man "the force of gravity" hath termed, 

While every form another's presence feels, 
Such is the mighty force of harmony. 

But did not those "magnetic" waves which come 
From out that mighty orb which is the "sun" 

Fix every "planet" in its "orbit" vast, 
The "planets" then together would be cast. 

And yet I see all space is filled with forms, 
Who move about in every manner that 

Can be conceived, and seem as though they bore 

Some messages of "Light" from that great "sun." 



THE VISION. 77 

And these fair forms by man as "life" i= known, 
And they are those whose stripes are growing healed, 

And every darker form with whom they meet, 
They try to rid it from its "ignorance." 

And by the "light of truth" each form becomes 
More "warm" in its desire to free itself 

From its dark bands, and thus expands itself 

To break the shackles which have bound it down. 

And many forms whose burdens have been small 
Become as "life" when all their stripes were healed, 

And through all space they mow disperse themselves 
To spread the "light of truth" to every form. 

And when those forms from "darkness" are thus freed 
The "transmutation" known to "man" takes place 

As darker forms become the forms of life, 
And disappear before the "eyes of men." 

This is the destiny of every form, 

That each may from its "ignorance" be free, 

That each dark form from space may disappear 
While all becomes a mighty "sea of life." 



I look again, and ages must have passed. 

The "planets" and the "sun" have all grown small, 
While all the "planets" and their "satellites" 

Have darker grown, and seem most cold and dead. 



78 THE VISION. 

But untold hosts who once were burdened down 
With "ignorance" have now life forms become, 

And move about in all the space around 
In harmony, and rythmic is their voice. 

And every moment from each planet's mass 
There comes a mighty host of forms of "life," 

Who were all healed of nearly all their stripes, 
And who are thus more free to move about. 

And as they pass through darker forms of light 
They cause these forms to move most swift about, 

And grow more warm in their desire to be 

Like forms of life, and this doth men call "heat." 

An thus each wave that bears a voice of light 

From that great "sun," spreads "light" and "heat" 
around, 

And thus each "planet" moving on its way 
Is rilled anew, with mighty waves of "life." 

Then came we near a "planet" called the "earth," 
And as we moved with it around the "sun" 

We watched the hosts who formed a mighty mist 
Around the earth, which seemed to bend the light. 

And 'round this "earth" there moved a "satellite," 
Which "men of earth" perhaps would call a "moon," 

But still it seemed, and dark and silent was, 

While all its forms were burdened with their stripes. 



THE vISION. 79 

And on that side which always pointed from 

The earth, there was a space most dark and deep 

Which led into its very central part, 

From which all forms of "life" had passed away. 

And when the light which was the voice of "life" 
From that great "sun" came to this hollow mass 

Of darker forms, the "moon" this "light" "repelled," 
And sent it hack to light the forms of "earth." 

Then far above the darker central mass 

Which formed the "earth," there moved a host of 
forms 
Who seemed to be the lightest of them all, 

And these by man as "hydrogen" are known. 

And down beneath there was a "sea" of forms 
Made up of these and forms who were more dark 

And these dark forms who "oxygen" are called, 
Each two fair forms of "hydrogen" embrace. 

And these they hold because of greater strength, 
For each doth weigh eight times as much as both 

Those two fair forms of "hydrogen" they hold 
And this "compound" by man is "water" called. 

And those bright waves now coming from the "sun'" 
Give every form on "earth" a brighter light 

And seem to loosen on each form, its bands 

And thus the "heat of light" each form expands. 



80 THE VISION. 

And that "compound" that "man" hath "water" called 
Soon rose above those forms who had more weight, 

But when they touched the colder forms above 

Their bands did shrink and back to "earth" they fell. 

But falling on some warmer forms below 
They did expand again with such a force 

That all the surface of the "earth" moved up, 
Caught by the force of those who did expand. 

And through long ages did these forms move thus, 
And worked such havoc there among themselves 

That on the surface of the "earth" there formed 

Huge heaps of forms which "man" hath "mountains" 
named. 

And those which once were placed alone in groups 
Hath with each other now become so mixed 

That all the surface of the "earth" was now 
A mass of unlike forms with burdens dark. 

Down in the "earth" some groups of "brighter" forms, 
Who were called "life" because their stripes were 
healed, 

Commenced to gather to themselves dark forms 

That they might free them from their darker bands. 

And as the darker forms became part healed 

Of their dark stripes, they were set free, and moved 

As forms of life, and passing through the hosts 
Around, they tell how "light" hast set them free. 



THE VISION. 81 

And these fair forms, just from their darkness free, 
Are known unto the "sense of man" as "heat," 

And every form that hears their voice expands, 
And tries to free itself from its dark bands. 

And thus "life's function" is to teach those forms 
More dark, and fill them with the "Light of truth," 

That they from "ignorance" which is their stripes, 
May free themselves and be as forms of "life." 

There in the depths of a great "sea" of forms, 

Those forms of "life" commenced their mighty work, 

And tiny "worlds" of "elements" were formed, 
And these are called by men "primeval slime." 

Then moved in that great "sea" of forms 
A countless host of tiny moving "worlds," 

All filled with many hosts of forms called "life," 
And each "world" drew dark forms unto itself. 

And when the "worlds" grew large with many forms, 
Some darker forms, became as forms of "life," 

And after they had served a certain time, 

They grew as wise as they who first were "life." 

The tiny "world" was broken, then, in halves, 

By forms of "life," and thus two "worlds" were 
formed, 

And when each "world" grew large again with "life," 
Two little "worlds" again were "born" from each. 



82 THE VISION. 

As thus a "Moneron" first had its birth, 

And they are tiny "worlds" or single "cells/' 

Who sub-divide themselves, and form two cells, 
Who larger grow, then "segregate" again. 

And soon upon the surface of the "earth" 
These forms of "life" did organize themselves, 

And as they freed more forms from "error's chains," 
These hosts of "life" soon covered all the "earth." 

And "man," who thinks these tiny "cells of life" 
Were made by chance, and had no first design, 

Is only blind, and hath not seen the light 

That lighteth every shape that "life" hath made. 

And when a "cell of life" could not get "food," 
Which was the darker forms that built its "shape," 

It left the tiny cell and passed away, 

Which passing of the "life," "man" hath called 
"death." 

However, at the "death" of any cell, 

Some forms of "life" who are not yet quite free 
From all their bands, are left behind with those 

Dark forms who now a "silent temple" are. 

And thus these forms of "life" had now become 

"The souls of things," and as their knowledge grew, 

They gathered smaller "cells of life" around, 

And taught them all the knowledge they had learned. 



THE VISION. 83 

And thus from single "cells" there was built up 
A shape of "cells" which had a "soul" more wise, 

And as the "souls of things" in knowledge grew, 
They did "evolve" most pleasing shapes from cells. 

And when these shapes built up of cells grew large, 
The "soul" within its shape did form an "egg,'' 

Which was a group of cells made up of forms, 
Who had a soul, most like the "parent soul." 

And thus these shapes gave birth to other shapes, 
Which did enlarge and gather to themselves 

A body like the shapes from which they came, 

But if they found no "food" the "soul" passed out. 

And wandered to and fro within the "sea," 

Until it found a "soul" like to itself, 
And joining with it formed a greater "soul," 

And thus this larger "soul" became more wise. 

And this "life" form, which "telepathic" came 
Unto a "soul" which then a "body" had, 

Became a servant to the latter "soul," 

And thus arose the "dual mind" of "things." 

And this "subjective mind" was given charge 

Of all the hosts, and built up forms most strange, 

And caused those many "freaks of nature" which 
Has mystified the "clouded sense of man." 



84 THE VISION. 

Then every shape that had a "dual mind" 
Did form within itself a shape which had 

Two minds like that unto the parent shape, 
And thus each shape gave birth unto its kind. 

And thus a form, who "light of knowledge" gained 
From that "life" form who "telepathic" came, 

Was given charge of every being made, 
And every shape had then an "overseer." 

But every shape a greater "ruler" had, 

Which was the "ego" of the new shape made, 

As it was one who had been trained by that 
Great "ego" who had ruled the parent shape. 

And thus the "soul" through "freaks" and other ways, 
More knowledge gained and filled the earth with 
shapes, 

Which were the best adapted for the "cause of life," 
Which was to free the darker forms from stripes. 

And this increase of knowledge which the "soul" 
Doth gain in many ways, is called by "man" 

The "evolution of the soul," and this 

Takes place before the "body" can "evolve." 

And it was first a "freak of nature," which 
Did first suggest the forming of the "sex," 

Which by the mingling of two "souls of things," 
The "soul" might then more rapidly evolve. 



THE VISION. 85 

Then shapes at first were all "hermaphrodites," 

For they combined both sexes into one, 
But later when the "normal mind" had made 

Some "forms of life," to act for it as "sense," 

The larger shapes did feel each other's shape, 
And finally when shapes developed "eyes," 

They did unite to form a perfect sex. 

And thus their "offspring" further did "evolve." 

Then from the "sea" some shapes of "life" were cast 

By dark, rebellious "elements" below, 
And then in shallow "seas" there formed 

New shapes of life that moved about the "earth." 

Then "evolution" on the earth took place, 

And many shapes "evolved" both queer and strange, 

Who in their haste to fc bear" shapes like themselves, 
"Devoured" the weaker shapes that moved about. 

And other shapes upon the firmer "earth" 
Were built up by some other forms of "life," 

And these were fastened to the darker forms, 
Which closely lay upon the "solid earth." 

And then fair shapes with "plant life" filled, arose 
And waved their pleasing shapes about the "earth," 

Until all "earth" with harmony was filled, 
And was a place most beautiful to see. 



86 THE VISION. 

Then midst those shapes of lovely "trees" and "ferns," 
Those shapes more wise together gathered there, 

While one fair shape the other shapes addressed, 
In "language of the soul" most pure and sweet. 

Hark atoms, we are all "immortal thoughts" 
Of that Great God who doth contain us all, 

And who like us is but an "Atom," vast, 
Surrounded by more "Atoms" like himself. 

Come let us make a shape like unto God, 
Who we are like, and let us call it "man," 

And give it "light" to rule all other shapes 
That move about the surface of this "earth." 

But let each "soul" no other life destroy, 
That moves about the many shapes of "earth," 

But gain our "life" from those fair shapes which hath 
No strength to move and stay where they are placed. 

Then every shape unto his offspring gave 

Commands that they should teach its offspring thus, 
And that when they had later grown more wise, 

By "evolution" they might create "man." 

Then darker shapes whose "souls" were not as wise 
As those fair forms who planned to make a "man," 

Did copy all the shapes the others made, 
And did not keep the laws the others did. 



THE VISION. 87 

But did devour the weaker shapes of life, 

In hopes that they might thus become more wise. 

But ignorant were they, and "devils" were, 

While those who kept the laws were known as "Gods." 

Then ages passed away and "man" was made, 
And two fair forms were chosen as the best, 

And placed alone into a "garden" fair, 

Named "Eden," which was filled with "living plants." 

And these two shapes who "Eve" and "Adam" were, 
Were told that they must not produce their kind, 

For if they did in that day they would "die," 
And thus dissolve to "atoms" once again. 

Outside the place where lived the lovely pair, 
Were other shapes most like unto themselves, 

But they, because their "souls" were ignorant, 
Were "devils" named, and they most evil were. 

One day while "Eve" sat in the "garden" fair, 
A "devil" came and slyly talked with her, 

And told her that she too might offspring bear, 
And still not "die," but here the "devil" lied. 

And "Eve/' who longed that she might offspring have, 
Soon yielded to the "devil's" cunning words, 

And disobeyed the "voices of the Gods," 
And gave herself unto the lust of "sin." 



88 THE VISION. 

Then "Adam" soon was tempted by his "Eve/' 
And disobeyed his own "Creator's" voice, 

And unto "Eve" was bom a "devil's child," 

Who was called "Cain" because it was most dark. 

Then "Adam" and his "Eve" was driven forth 
From "Eden" and were made to seek their "life" 

Among the "plants" which filled the "earth" around 
And which one day would cause them both to "die." 

Then "Eve" by "Adam" had another "child," 
Who was most fair, and it was "Abel" named, 

And "Eve" grew happy as her young "son" grew, 
And said, "I have a man from out 'my lord.' " 

And when the "devil's child" did see this "son" 
Was favored more by him who was the "lord," 

He rose in wrath and his half-brother slew 

And spilled his "blood" upon the "earth" around. 

Then "Adam" came, who was the "lord of all." 
And saw what this dark "devil's child" had done. 

Then did command upon each "devil's brow" 

There should be placed a mark which was called 
"beast." 

Then every shape made by those wiser "thoughts" 
Might then destroy these "devils" from the "earth." 

Then "Cain" did flee away to save his life, 
And in the "land of Nod" did find a "wife." 



THE VISION. 89 

And raised up offspring who upon their "face" 
Had everyone a look most like the "beast." 

Thus "Cain" received the curse for sin, and said, 
"My punishment is more than I can bear." 

But "Eve" and "Adam" other children had, 
And they were known to all as "sons of God." 

Who raised up offspring like unto themselves, 

And filled the "earth" with shapes most strong and 
fair. 

And those dark shapes who were the "sons of Cain," 
Though "devils" part, were called the "sons of men," 

Then "daughters" fair had all these "sons of men," 
And they became the "wives" of "sons of God." 

But evil was the way of all these shapes, 

And those "immortal thoughts" who had them made 
Repented that they "men" on "earth" had shaped, 

And did decree that every "man" must "die." 

But one fair shape, and "Noah" was his name, 
Found favor in the sight of those who ruled, 

And was forewarned to build himself an "ark," 
And take his "sons" and other shapes in it. 

Then rose a mighty tempest from the "sea," 
Which did obey those other wiser forms, 

Who called themselves "immortal thoughts of God," 
And all the shapes upon the "earth" dissolved. 



90 THE VISION. 

But "Noah" in his mighty "ark" was safe, 

And when the tempest of the "sea" had stilled, 

The "ark" did rest again upon the "earth," 
And he with all the shapes within came forth. 

And soon the "earth" was filled again with men, 

But evil did the "soul of man" become,. 
That they forgot that they were only "souls," 

And really thought that they were mighty "men." 

And then their ears did seem to wax most dull, 
That they heard not again the "voice of Gods," 

Which spake to them the "language of the soul," 
And tried to bring them back again to them. 

But there it seemed was "devil" in their "blood," 
Which thus had rilled their "souls" with ignorance, 

And thus they called those "orbs" through which they 
"felt," 
Their eyes, and thought that they did see, not feel 

The voices of those forms which came to them, 

Through those bright "orbs" which had been made to 
"feel," 

Thus ignorance filled the "souls of men," 

And angels wept because that "man" was "blind." 

And as the shapes of "men" had shapes like "souls," 
They thought that "men" were really small as they, 

And even dared to think that "souls" could die, 
When that "soul shape" they knew as "man," dissolved. 



THE VISION. 91 

Then "messengers" who heard the "voice of Gods" 
Did come to them and tried to give them "light," 

But they were scorned and often "pnt to death/' 
Because they heard the "language of the soul." 

Then later on a "Holy One" came down 

With other "hosts" who came with him from God, 

And coming to a "daughter of the lord," 
They entered in and caused her to "conceive." 

And when unto her shape a "Child" was born, 
The starry hosts above did sing for joy, 

That "man" at last might now be free from sin, 
And hear once more the "murmur of the Gods." 

And thus the "Word" sought out the angels lost, 
And told them that he had been sent of God, 

To bring them back again unto the fold, 
Where all was love and harmony divine. 

But first the angels lost must do God's will, 
While still beneath, as they must do above, 

And after they had served a certain time, 
They would be called unto his judgment seat. 

There to account for deeds they did below, 

And if He found that they were good and true 

And worthy of his mercy and his love, 
Then they might dwell, forevermore, above. 



92 THE VISION. 

Then for awhile the "Saviour" stayed with those 
Who had been lost, and who were found again, 

And chose twelve hosts, each named "a soul of man," 
And bade them teach "salvation" unto all. 

But one was false, and "Judas" was his name, 
And he the "Saviour" of the "lost" betrayed, 

Then went about and did destroy himself, 

For all the hosts, his "brain" was sore dismayed. 

Then took those "demon shapes" of "men," the "Word," 
And crucified Him there upon a "tree," 

And "killed" the very "Prince of Life," who came 
To set them from their sin and error free. 

But "death" could not prevail against the "Word," 
And "Jesus" filled "His Holy Shape" with "life," 

And from the grave came forth to show to all 
That "death" is but "illusion of the sense." 

Then, charging all to heed their God's command, 
The "Saviour" promised he would come again, 

Then took those hosts who had his "body" formed, 
And passed with them back to the realms above. 

But many would not on the "Word" believe, 
And went about believing they could "see," 

When all the "light" the "earth" hath ever had, 

Came from that "Light" which is the "Word of God." 



THE VISION. 93 

Long ages passed and even "men" did try 
To rend apart that mighty "Word of God." 

But that "immortal" is, and none can change 
This "Light" which G-od in mercy sent to them. 

And man much "wisdom" (?) thought that he had 
gained, 

And even found that "things" were made of "forms," 
Which all the mighty forces known to him 

Could never change, for these "immortal" are. 

And those small "forms" who were most like his "soul," 
He "atoms" called and even found their size, 

But such a fool was he, he knew them not, 

Nor did perceive they knew much more than he. 

And though he knew his "body" was not he, 
He thought that he must be a shape as large, 

And made perhaps of "gas" and moved about, 
And felt the "senses" which his "body" had. 

And when a "shape" filled with the "Light of Truth," 
And who oft heard the "murmur of the Gods," 

Did tell him that his "soul" was "atom size," 

He laughed in scorn, and said, "thy soul is mad." 

But others gained themselves some "Light of Truth," 
And did believe that "bearer of the Light," 

And let him teach them how that they might live, 
That they might gain themselves "Eternal Light." 



94 THE VISION. 

Then that "bright shape" to all the "world" proclaimed 
That lest they listened to these "Words of Light," 

That two decades of time should "earth" not see 
Before it should be hurled into the "sun." 

Dark shapes of earth, thy God hath spoke to thee, 
REPENT and hear this message which I bring, 

Or God, before thou seest twenty years, 

Will then destroy this earth and thee with fire. 



NOTES. 

Note 1. The reader must allow his imagination 
to magnify his conceptions of the division of time 
as well as those of space in order to comprehend what 
is taking place upon the plane from which this vision 
is seen. Changes which would take a comparatively 
long time upon the spirit plane for their completion, 
viewed from the plane of man would seem to occur 
instantly. 

Flammarion, in the introduction of his book, The 
Unknown, writes as follows: 

" 'What can these studies concerning psychic 
problems lead to, after all?' says some one. 

"We answer: 'They tend to show that the soul 
exists and that our hopes of immortality are not 
chimeras.' 

" 'Materialism' is an hypothesis which cannot 
be sustained, now that we know more about 'matter.' 
It does not afford us the solid point d'appui it was 
once supposed to do. Bodies are composed of mil- 
lions of millions of mobile atoms, which do not even 
touch one another, and are in perpetual movement 
around each other. These infinitely minute atoms are 
now considered centers of force. Where, then, is 
matter? It disappeared under dynamism. 

"An intellectual law controls the universe in 
which our planet holds a humble place. Such is the 
law of progress. I showed in my work Le Monde 
avant la Creation de VHomme that the evolution of 
Lamarck and Darwin is only a recognition of facts, 



96 NOTES. 

and not a cause (the product can never be superior 
to what generates it), and in my work La Fin du 
Monde I also showed that nothing can end, since all 
that had existence in past eternity exists still. 

"The law of progress which regulates all life, 
the physical organism of this life itself, the instinc- 
tive foresight of plants, insects, birds, etc., to assure 
the propagation of these species, and an examination 
of the principal facts in natural history will result, 
as Oersted has told us, in convincing us that there is 
a spirit in nature. 

"The current of our daily life shows us no power 
of thought except in the brains of men and animals. 
Thence physiologists have concluded that thought is 
a product of the brain. And we are told that without 
brain there is no thought. 

"Now, nothing authorizes us to think that the 
sphere of our observations is universal — that it com- 
prises all the possibilities of nature in all other 
worlds. 

"No one has a right to insist that there can be 
no thought without a brain. 

"If one or another of the millions of microbes 
that inhabit each of our bodies was trying to gen- 
eralize his impressions, could he suspect, as he floated 
in the blood of our veins or our arteries, or devoured 
our muscles, or made his way into our bones, or 
traveled through all parts of our system from head 
to foot, that this body, like his own, was regulated 
by an organic unity? 

"Such is really our relation to the planetary uni- 
verse. 

"The sun — the great heart of his system and 
source of life — shines on the orbits of the planets, 
and he himself moves in a sidereal system that is 
vaster still. We have no right to deny that thought 



NOTES. 97 

can exist in space, and that it directs the movements 
of vast bodies, as we direct those of our arms or legs. 
The instinct which controls living beings, the forces 
which keep up the beating of our hearts, the circula- 
tion of our blood, the respiration of our lungs, and 
the action of our stomachs, may they not have paral- 
lels in the material universe, regulating conditions 
of existence incomparably more important than those 
of a human being, since, for example, if the sun were 
to be extinguished, or if the movement of the earth 
were put out of its course, it would not be one human 
being who would die, it would be the whole popula- 
tion of our globe, to say nothing of that of other 
planets. 

"There exists in our cosmos a dynamic element, 
imponderable and invisible, diffused through all parts 
of the universe, independent of matter visible and 
ponderable, and acting upon it, and in that dynamic 
element there is an intelligence superior to our own. 
Yes, undoubtedly we think with our brains, as we 
see with our eyes, as we hear with our ears; but it 
is not our brain which thinks any more than it is 
our eyes which see. What would you say of a person 
who congratulated a telescope on seeing the canals 
of Mars so well? The eye is an organ, and so is the 
brain." 

Note 2. One of the many pleasures of my life 
is a comparatively perfect memory, and I often live 
over again those moments of my childhood before I 
had discovered the many mockeries and hypocrisies 
which fill up the average human life. I distinctly 
remember one Sunday afternoon when I was between 
five and six years of age. I had been to Sunday 
school and my untrained mind was trying to grasp 
its first conception of God as is presented in the first 



98 NOTES. 

part of the catechism. My Sunday school teacher 
had talked to me long and earnestly about a Great 
Being who had created me and who lived "away up 
beyond the stars," and that I must be "awful" good 
if I wished to have Him love me and answer all my 
prayers. I had been telling my mother what my 
teacher had told me and without doubt had asked her 
many foolish questions about things beyond my com- 
prehension. And while I was trying to imagine a 
place far away beyond the skies where God must be, 
whether it was created by the limit of my imagina- 
tion or from a vision, I seemed to come to a great 
shining wall which would not let me pass any fur- 
ther and which caused me to feel queer and tremble, 
and I said to my mother: "Mama, what is beyond 
that great wall away up there in the sky?" I re- 
member how pale mother turned as she quickly took 
me up in her arms and held me, while her voice 
seemed to tremble as she said: "What is the matter, 
my son? What are you thinking about? You must 
not think about such things any more; it will make 
you sick." And after she had held me for a while she 
made me get ready and go out walking with her. 

I often thought about God and heaven and all 
the uncountable angels who were supposed to be with 
Him, but as mother always scolded me if I asked 
many questions about these things, I usually kept my 
thoughts mostly to myself. 

Note 3. It should be understood that this de- 
scription is not necessarily the history of the forma- 
tion of our own solar system. In our clearest con- 
ceptions of infinite space which we have conjectured 
to be filled with an infinite extension of substance, 
we must clearly see that if an infinite number of uni- 
verses were formed from an uniformly distributed 
substance, there would come a time when the limit 



NOTES. 99 

of permutations and combinations of "atoms" would 
be reached, and from then on an infinite number of 
duplicate universes must necessarily be formed, many 
of them being duplicates of each other even to the 
tiniest form of life which might have arisen upon any 
particular planet; or I may go one step farther and 
say, even to every thought which might be passing 
in the mind of any sentient form which has its ex- 
istence within that universe. This can be very easily 
demonstrated mathematically with algebraic for- 
mulas. Such is our conception of infinity. 

Note 4. The reader must bear in mind that to 
conceive of a real process of seeing on any plane is 
impossible. The different "bands" or "stripes" upon 
the "lost angels" or atoms, are the different "tones" 
or "voices" of the atoms, which is the frequency or 
rate of their vibration per second. And the different 
"beating" of the atoms is comparable to the "confu- 
sion of tongues" at Babel. Those atoms who "speak 
the same language," that is, whose frequency of vi- 
bration are the same, are attracted toward each other, 
and thus the elements are collected in groups. Some 
elements seem to interpret the language of the others, 
and thus unite with them; as, for instance, oxygen 
seems to understand the language of every element 
except flourine, and by a process called "chemical af- 
finity" unites with all the other elements except the 
latter. 

The ego, unto whom much was given, of it was 
much required, but those whom the ego ruled were 
beaten with few stripes because they had a subordi- 
nate position, but it all comes out that each have 
"one penny" or that their last condition is alike when 
they are drawn back to the plane which attracts them 
as like attracts like; for the greater loss of Om- 
niscience by the wise and the lesser loss of knowledge 



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100 NOTES. 

by those who were ignorant reduces them all to one 
common plane. Thus the stripes might be called the 
"beats" per second given the atoms for disobedience. 
The whole range of vibration or discharge from elec- 
trified atoms, seems to be in this universe confined 
within the range of one "octave," though the presence 
of the Rontgen or X-rays, whose vibrations have been 
calculated to be 1,000 times those of light, would seem 
to indicate the presence of a more subtle kind of 
matter with a higher vibrating frequency. This 
thought is further borne out by the discovery of those 
rare substances like radium. 



PART II. 



THE VOICE OF GOD. 

A EEVELATIOIST.* 

"And it shall come to pass afterward that 
I mill pour out 'my Spirit upon all flesh; and 
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy 
and your old men shall dream dreams, your 
young men shall see visions." (Joel II, 28.) 

While this dull form was in that deeper sleep, 
A sleep so deep it seemed like unto death, 

A low voice spoke, though matter answered not, 
But startled, awed, recorded every word. 

"Hark, matter ! I have raised thee from the dust 
And built from thee a multitude of forms, 

Some fair, some foul, for thou resisteth me 
And would not let me mould thee to my way. 

Thou knowest that within thy form is power 

Omnipotent, except it should oppose 
Some higher cause, eternal as itself, 

Which is itself and all infinity. 

And in so far as thy dull frame doth yield, 

Omniscience omnipresent is in thee; ; 

Doth dwell in thee and thou in it abide, 
That thy earth form may thus existence have. 

*When 1 first wrote these lines I interpreted them as the voice 
of God speaking to me, later it seems more as if it were the ego 
speaking to the atoms of matter composing its "body." 



104 THE VOICE OF GOD. 

O, frame of clay ! I wonder not at thee, 

For thou art dust and knoweth not my way: 

But hadst thou not resisted me, this day 
Thou wouldst be garbed in immortality. 



I am thy life, thy Saviour and thy all, 
Thou knowest naught except I tell it thee, 

Though yet I know thou ever trusteth me; 
Thou knowest that I wish to keep thee whole, 

That I am pleased to let thy form exist. 



Thou standeth at the edge of some great chasm 
And trusting me, doth take another step ; 

Yet, had not my perception been correct, 
Had I not known how near was that abyss, 

Then thou were lost o'er that dark precipice. 

Dull matter, know, if thou wert pure and sweet, 
Thou couldst then have thy every wish fulfilled ; 

Come, hear my voice and let me give thee power, 
That even wind and waves for thee be stilled. 



Thou findest that I penetrate beyond 

The vision of the orbs which thee I gave, 

And bring to thee the consciousness of forms 
Which even now hath mouldered in the grave. 

Is that more strange than that I tell thee this? 

Thou asketh me, O dull and sluggish clay, 
What is this power now manifest in thee? 

The answer thrills, bewilders and astounds, 
And even thou the answer may deny, 

For gross thou art and dull perception hath. 



THE VOICE OF GOD. 105 

Thy soul, thy life, is not then but a part 
Of that great God, who doth eternal reign ; 

It is that God Omnipotent, All- Wise, 
Who is thy soul, who thy Creator is. 

How simple thou, to think that but a part 
Of that great Cause was manifest in thee ; 

Self cannot isolate itself from self, 
Infinity exists, a perfect whole. 

There is no place throughout the realms of space 

Where I could separate a part away, 
For God entirely fills infinity. 

Naught is without, all doth abide in me. 

Thou art not "part of one stupendous Whole." 
Thou art that Whole, and other there is none. 

Self comprehendeth not that it is self, 
And thus thy soul knew not that it was God. 

Thy form, for lack of knowledge, is destroyed ; 

Rejecting me, I have rejected thee. 
Why will ye die, O forms that I have made? 

No joy have I in seeing thee dissolve. 

But thou art clay and evil is thy way; 

Thou didst not heed the voice that spoke to thee; 
And wise are they who understand my words 

And thus become Omnipotent with me. 

These words profound hath set the sinner free, 
And not one vestige of a doubt remains 

About thyself or of thy future life, 

For thou art God and must immortal be. 



106 THE VOICE OF GOD. 

And just so long as in all space is found 
One star that sends its waves of light afar, 

So long as forms move in the depths beyond, 
Shall thou exist, for thou and they art God. 

Let every toiler at his menial task, 

Let every king and ruler on his throne 
Pause now and hear this message which I bring: 

We all are one; WE ARE OMNISCIENT GOD. 

No form should think wherein my life is found 
That it is weak; ALL HATH OMNIPOTENCE, 

And every moving part all knowledge hath, 
For God Omniscient Omnipresent is. 

And every form pulsating now with life 
My presence feels and doth abide in me; 

What though I move in high or lowly place, 
My spirit dwells in all infinity. 

O, happy day, when that omniscient form 
With words Divine proclaimed that it was God, 

And when that form was given up to death 
Which had foreknown that it from death should wake. 

What wonder that the universe did quake, 
What wonder that the sun held back its light; 

And seeing then all nature, fearful, shake, 
Thou didst exclaim, that 'truly this was God. 1 

What gracious words fell from those lips Divine 
That thou might be from sin and error free; 

And when that form was raised upon the cross, 
Thou first perceived thy immortality. 



THE VOICE OF GOD. 107 

For this is life eternal that thou know 
The God of Truth, and Jesus whom he sent 

To teach thee of his mercy and his love 
That thou might come again and dwell with him. 

I am the vine and ye the branches are ; 

Abide in me and I will dwell in thee; 
For without me the branch must droop and die, 

Must then return to dust from whence it came. 

In other words I dwell in purer forms ; 

Where peace doth reign and all obey my will ; 
Yet even they were once as base as thee, 

But through their faith eternal life received. 

What were the words that those twelve chosen forms 
Received of me, that faith in me they gained? 

That through their forms a power I might send 
To give new life to thy dissolving frame. 

Hark now, earth forms, I say the words again, 

Hark, hear my voice ! Hark, hear the voice of God : 

Within thee dwells Omnipotence, All-Wise, 
There is none else in all infinity. 

Base clay, awake! Why dost thou me resist? 

Shall I depart and leave thee to thy fate? 
Wilt thou reject thy very source of life, 

When thou mightst live through all eternity? 

But I return to purer, higher realms, 
Though not forever may thou be as dust; 

Perchance again may I come unto thee 
That thy base clay may yet immortal be. 



108 THE VOICE OF GOD. 

Ah, yes, I see thou hast some feeling still ; 

Thou weepest when thou seest me depart, 
Thou knowest that to dust thou must return 

And senseless be until I come again. 

Farewell, frail form, thy punishment is just, 
Thou didst not heed the impulse which I gave; 

Thou must dissolve, but I shall come once more, 
Then heedest thou lest thou should die again. 

But matter yet I know ye shall obey 
Must yield to God, who doth abide in thee; 

THEN TIME SHALL CEASE, and every sentient form 
Which doth abound in all infinity 

In me shall live and be forever clothed 

With garb Divine, with immortality; 
Then every part wherein my spirit dwells 

Shall hear my voice and know that it is God." 



THE SOUL IS GOD. 

"Many shall be purified and made white, 
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; 
and none of the wicked shall understand ; but 
the wise shall understand." (Daniel XII, 10. ) 

"There is a natural body and there is a spir- 
itual body." (I. Cor. XV, 44.) 

Every thinking human being is aware that 
there is a something about himself that remains 
the same notwithstanding perpetual changes in 
the body and in the brain — a something that 
seems to project itself to any place toward 
which our thoughts are directed. This con- 
sciousness, then, the ego, is universally felt, 
even by those who do not generally think upon 
such subjects, to be something apart or distinct 
from the material form. This something is the 
soul, and while it is closely connected with and 
dependent upon the physical organization for 
the means to visibly manifest itself, it is not 
in any sense identical with it. It is an entity 
of superior organization, whose elements are 
more subtle and refined. And as we clothe the 
physical body and furnish it with implements 



110 THE SOUL IS GOD. 

to use in the subjugation of the more rough ele- 
ments, so the soul has created and clothed itself 
with a material form with special organs and 
accoutrements that it might have existence and 
cognizance with material things. It is the same 
part which, when the physical impressions of 
the natural body are subdued, reaches out and 
beholds things beyond the range of the physical 
senses; it is this part which passes into the 
"silence" and receives telepathic impressions or 
inspirations from the Divine Mind. 

There is but one way to reach a higher com- 
prehension of this real self, and the greatest 
Teacher this world . has yet known has out- 
lined it for us : "Verily, verily, I say unto 
thee except a man be born again he cannot see 
the kingdom of God." What does he mean 
by these words ? Not their literal significance, 
a second birth to the material body, but the re- 
generation of the soul, the Divine conception 
of the real truths of the Infinite and the 
Eternal which reveal to us that the soul of 
man is God. 

When you fully realize that in every being 
there exists a latent force which does not ordi- 
narily manifest itself and that our intuitive 
thoughts spring from a source which the "as- 
sociation of ideas" or the "re-presentation" of 
past experience cannot account for, you will 
understand that as we gain more knowledge 



THE SOUL, IS GOD. Ill 

of this inner self, the more clear will be our 
comprehension of the great truths and secrets 
infolded in our being, and with this second 
spiritual birth we receive perfect knowledge, 
becoming an intermediator between the unseen 
realms and mortal man. 

Thus the first step toward the comprehen- 
sion of this Divine part within, is to under- 
stand that the corporeal body is not our real 
self. We must interpret clearly the meaning 
of Paul's words : "Know ye not that ye are 
the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God 
dwelleth in you." "If our earthly tabernacle 
be destroyed, we have a building of God not 
made with hands, eternal in the heavens." We 
are a spiritual being dwelling in and manifest- 
ing attributes through a house of clay. Of the 
medium of which our real self consists, we 
have, as yet, no actual knowledge. Self cannot 
comprehend self; the medium of which it is 
composed is so subtle and different from all 
known forms of matter, for something tan- 
gible we must conceive it to be, that it has 
thus far escaped the perception of our physi- 
cal senses, other than through its manifesta- 
tions. 

That which we name spirit is one stupen- 
dous WHOLE, or GOD; and as with our 
physical senses we perceive the various ele- 
ments which make up our corporeal body and 



112 THE SOUL IS GOD. 

the physical world, so with our soul senses or 
telepathic intuitions may we comprehend the 
attributes of that great invisible realm which is 
manifest through our organism. 

If one who had been born blind, or who had 
been hidden from the light of the sun, were 
told that the world was flooded with a bright 
sunlight, he would have to accept it on faith 
or reject it altogether, but if one ray of sun- 
light should pierce through his sightless orbs 
and impinge upon his inner consciousness, that 
one ray of light would prove to him that the 
sun existed ; so one who has been illumined by 
that "Light which, lighteth every man that 
cometh into the world," who has received one 
Divine inspiration from the great unseen, can 
never doubt again the presence of God in the 
soul of man. Nothing comes of nothing. 
Demonstrate the Divine attributes of the soul 
and we have proved that the soul is Divine. 
Positive evidence reveals and proves the ex- 
istence of an unseen realm as real as that 
known to our physical senses. 



GOD THE SOUKCE OF ALL 
PHENOMENA. 

"And there are diversities of operations, 
but it is the same God which worketh all in 
all" (I Cor. XII, 6.) 

"Neither is worshiped with men's hands; 
as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth 
to all life, and breath, and all things." (Acts 
XVII, 25.) 

The soul is composed of tangible spiritual 
elements. Its most familiar manifestation is 
thought, which is the grandest and greatest 
force of the soul. Its vibrations are more pow- 
erful and its phases more intricate than any 
of those undulations of the ether which we 
commonly know as light, heat, electricity, 
magnetism or the attraction of gravitation. In 
fact, all of these latter phenomena, which have 
been demonstrated to be but modes of motion 
or etheric undulations, are but the lower mani- 
festations in the ether, set up by the force of 
Immortal Thought ; and while we may not, as 
yet, comprehend the real nature of these waves 



114 GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL PHENOMENA. 

or vibrations which thought has created in the 
etheric medium, a study of physical phenomena 
helps one to comprehend in a way the action of 
the higher forces of the soul. 

We find that if the electric current is sent 
through a coil of wire around a soft iron core, 
the core of iron becomes a magnet; and if a 
wire is caused to move rapidly between the 
poles of magnets, electric vibrations or currents 
are set up in the moving wire, with a voltage 
in direct proportion to the number of magnetic 
waves, or "lines of force," which the moving 
wire cuts through in a certain time, and with 
an amperage or quantity of current in propor- 
tion to the capacity of the wire. It is on this 
principle that the dynamo or generator is con- 
structed. 

We find that if the electric current be di- 
rected through suitable mechanism, we are 
able, apparently, to give life and intelligence to 
our handiwork; fill our creations with invisi- 
ble power, limited only by the capacity of our 
models. Can you not trace the resemblance 
between these phenomena and those of sentient 
beings? For just as the electric current in 
passing through a series of motors, lamps, 
radiators and other mechanical devices, gives 
out a variety of phenomena from one and the 
same current, such as movement, light, heat, 
sound, etc., of a quality depending upon the 



GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL PHENOMENA. 115 

perfectness or adaptability of the mechanism 
through which these phenomena are manifest, 
so does that Almighty All- Wise Being who is 
omnipresent in every part, manifest his at- 
tributes in the forms through which he moves, 
in direct proportion to their fitness or capacity 
to utilize his Divine forces and faculties. 

Our human body is but a delicate and intri- 
cate mechanism, a confederacy or collection of 
cells, designed by a Superior Mind through 
the evolutions of eons past, and formed from 
the very elements that compose ordinary forms. 
It is guided and controlled by the Infinite Mind 
which has created it, answering the demands 
which it receives from the great Central 
Station, when the message as an instinct thrills 
through its system, just as the electric motor 
starts whirling when it feels the magnetic vi- 
brations through its coils. 

The inertia of matter, or, in other words, 
the tendency which it has to remain in state in 
which it is, whether one of rest or motion, is 
the property which resists the impulse of the 
Divine Moulder, for the reactive momentum 
arising from the Divine impulse ultimately de- 
stroys or overcomes the impulse giving it life, 
and when an equilibrium is reached, death or 
stillness ensues and the form returns again to 
dust whence it came. 

Who will say that matter may not yet be- 



116 GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL PHENOMENA. 

come "in tune with the Infinite," may not yet 
become in harmony with the Eternal, and thus 
be created into immortal forms. 

The infinite power and intelligence from 
the great unseen Central Station is reverberat- 
ing throughout the organism of every sentient 
being. Its action may be seen, its presence 
may be felt ; in it we move and have our being ; 
and as with electrical and other phenomena, 
we may not comprehend all its intricacies, or 
its method of propagation through space and 
matter, yet we know the conditions required 
for its manifestations, and through this knowl- 
edge we 1 may control infinite power, may gain 
light where formerly it was all darkness, fill 
our very being with health, strength and noble 
impulses, or allow such powerful vibrating 
currents to penetrate our system that we are 
consumed by their devouring fire. 

This Principle within has the power of 
transferring the consciousness of other forms 
to our consciousness, or vice versa. This we 
term telepathy, but we have a better under- 
standing of our own creations. In wireless 
telegraphy when the transmitting key is de- 
pressed at the sending station, a disruptive elec- 
tric discharge from an induction coil takes 
place, which propagates waves in the surround- 
ing ether in a manner somewhat similar to those 
produced in still water by tossing a stone into 



GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL PHENOMENA. 117 

it. In the. ether ic medium the waves move 
very rapidly in all directions, and upon reach- 
ing the receiving station their undulatory 
movements cause prepared metal filings, con- 
tained loosely within a tube, to adhere and thus 
complete the electric circuit, in which the tube 
of filings is inserted, at every depression of the 
sending key with the same precision as a fin- 
ger had reached out and pressed a button there. 

But had we no code of signals to interpret 
the meaning of the sounder's movements, its 
clicks would have no real significance to us. 
We would know that some force was at work 
making the successive sounds. We might in- 
fer that their systematic order and repetition 
was the result of intelligence, but they would 
be of no practical value to us. 

We are the receiving stations of the great 
Unknown, and for ages an Omniscient Intelli- 
gence has been vibrating within our breast, 
patiently awaiting the time when we might 
comprehend its Divine message. In all ages 
there have been those who in inspired mo- 
ments have heard and interpreted the message 
of that still voice within and have tried to 
teach others the true way of life, but they have 
been "despised and rejected of men" and many 
have been tortured and put to death for speak- 
ing the words of Light. There is no message 
but one of health, power and intelligence com- 



118 GOD THE SOURCE OF ALL PHENOMENA. 

ing from the great Unseen. If we are weak, 
ill or unwise, it is because we do not let this 
Divine force within give us what it desires; 
and though you may not fully understand this 
action of the unseen force of the soul, do not 
reject its aid, but rather comply with those con- 
ditions which have been demonstrated as giving 
health, happiness, wisdom and power. 

The time is near when the darkness and 
error which has clouded the mind of Man 
through past ages will be dispersed by the 
eternal light of Truth ; then its Divine radiance 
will glow in every form of life and all will 
know and feel the infinite power manifested 
through their being. The higher evolution will 
commence. Man by the development and use 
of the Divine forces of the soul will be able 
to change the movement of the visible uni- 
verse. Sensual desires will be eliminated and 
the love of conquest will be limited and di- 
rected only to overcome those evils which ob- 
scure the light of the soul. Disease will dis- 
appear and war will be unknown, and that time 
would hasten — 



"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, 
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, 
Given to redeem the human mind from error, 
There were no need of arsenals or forts. 



GOD THE SOURCE OP ALL PHENOMENA. 119 

The warrior's name would be a name abhorred, 
And every nation that should lift again 

A hand against a fellow, on their forehead 
Should forever wear the curse of Cain. 

Down the dark future, throughout long generations, 
I hear the echoes growing fainter and then cease, 

And like a bell with silent sweet vibrations, 

I hear the voice of Christ once more say 'peace.' " 



MATERIAL AID VALUABLE. 

"Therefore said they unto him, How were 
thine eyes opened? He answered and said, 
A mfm that is called JESUS made clay, and 
anointed mine eyes and said unto me, Go to 
the pool of Siloam and wash; and I went and 
washed, and I received sight." (John IX, 

IO-II.) 

Mortal mind is not all error as some of the 
self-styled scientists would have us believe ; our 
knowledge of the material world is founded 
upon experience, or the evidence of our senses, 
and the conviction that the same causes al- 
ways produce the same effects. If our senses 
appear to deceive us, we have a multitude of 
recorded facts with which our reasoning power 
enables us to locate the element and reason of 
apparent deception. There is only one road to 
an accurate knowledge of any subject, and that 
is by the observation and analysis of the facts 
pertaining to that particular subject. When 
individual experience is enlarged by the past 
and present experience of other inquirers, and 
this combined knowledge is so arranged that 



122 MATERIAL AID VALUABLE. 

it may be comprehended by one, the system be- 
comes a science, or a collection of exact knowl- 
edge, because it is derived from a comparison 
and association of axiomatic truths. 

Through our faith in the constancy of Na- 
ture and the immutability of her laws we con- 
fidently explain the past and predict -the future. 
Man exercising his volition speaks, walks, or 
lifts a weight — examples of mysterious connec- 
tion between spirit and matter, of the conscious 
exercise of mechanical force which for the time 
overcomes the action of some universal law. 
Yet, when by the exercise of his volition he is 
able to move som; heavy object in opposition 
to the law of gravitation he does not consider 
his action miraculous, nor does one usually rec- 
ognize that in the performance of this every- 
day action he is demonstrating that the force 
controlled by, or synonymous with, his will is 
superior to the force of one of the greatest 
laws of nature ; that this force proceeding from 
the volition of man has all the essential attrib- 
utes of Omnipotence with a difference only in 
degree. It can be demonstrated with mathe- 
matical accuracy that man by dropping a small 
object from his hand to the earch will change 
the very course of the visible universe through 
space. Not that man may "create" a particle 
of force anew, for the sum total of universal 
energy is constant, but he may direct energy 



MATERIAL AID VALUABLE. 123 

into new channels, and thus control a variety 
of phenomena at will. 

By the use of the mechanical powers and 
by harnessing - the forces of nature he trans- 
mits or multiplies his force at will. Both his 
consciousness and experience inform him that 
all these manifestations of force result from 
the mysterious action of his volition upon mat- 
ter. He is thus led to the unavoidable con- 
clusion that those great phenomena of nature 
over which he usually exercises no control must 
also have their origin in the volitions of a Mind 
which must be Infinite. Force and Will thus 
become related terms, and we are compelled 
to regard the forces of nature, as they are us- 
ually styled, as only the outward manifesta- 
tions or the visible working of the mind of 
GOD. 

He also learns that he can, by placing certain 
elements together in a certain condition, cause 
them to act upon each other in a mysterious 
manner through forces which appear to be in- 
herent and latent within the elements. This 
action he calls chemical. He has "faith" in 
the elements, or, in other words, he is positive 
that he will gain certain results when certain 
conditions are produced. 

This law of reasoning is also applicable to 
things of a spiritual nature, and there is no 



124 MATERIAL AID VALUABLE. 

reason why this should not be the case. 
"Faith," then, is merely the conviction that cer- 
tain results will be produced in a certain case, 
by the evidence or knowledge of the outcome 
of previous experiments. Being convinced of 
the immutability of Divine law, we know there 
can be no possible exception to its universal 
action if all the conditions required for its man- 
ifestation are complied with. And one who 
has faith in the higher spiritual manifestations 
of the Divine Mind would be as greatly as- 
tonished if there were not an immediate action 
when certain conditions were produced, as 
would a student of physics at beholding a heavy 
body unaffected by gravitation while unsup- 
ported in midair. 

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things unseen," whether it is 
faith in spiritual or physical manifestations. 
Many otherwise correct teachers, misunder- 
standing the real meaning of "faith," have neg- 
lected to comply with conditions which animal 
instinct alone should have informed them were 
essential to the successful outcome of their ef- 
forts. Blind faith would be and is required 
in those organisms which have no objective 
mind to reason with, but man was given a 
reasoning power, the highest function of the 
objective mind, which was to enable him to be- 



MATERIAL, AID VALUABLE. 125 

come better adapted to cope with the increas- 
ing exigencies of physical environment. 

Close and scientific examination into the 
law of cause and effect has led to importatit 
discoveries of treatment and material reme- 
dies which repeated experience have shown to 
be beneficial in hastening the restoration of the 
disordered physical organism. These remedies 
have no power of themselves to remove any dis- 
order (this does not apply to surgery), and 
any honest physician only claims to be able to 
"aid nature." Treatment is valuable only so 
far as it furnishes conditions and materials to 
facilitate the work of the creative principle in 
its endeavor to restore harmony in the dis- 
ordered body. 

It is not advisable in any case to take other 
than proper nourishment unless there is some 
serious trouble or disorder, and then it should 
be only remedies which are well known to' be 
reliable ; a stimulant in any case is but a poison. 
And when one willingly receives into' their sys- 
ten the poison of alcohol, tobacco, or any other 
drug, they are arraying themselves against their 
very source of life; and while these poisons 
may seem for a time to be beneficial yet this 
seeming effect is only the increased efforts of 
the unseen workers in their endeavor to elimi- 
nate the poisonous elements from the system, 



126 MATERIAL AID VALUABLE. 

and a reaction will always take place and the 
last state will be worse than the first. 

It is obvious, however, that as all the 
exact knowledge thus far gained by man came 
from that Divine Mind which is the source 
of all life, that in our endeavor to obtain any 
desired results we should not ignore or neglect 
to use any possible aid which repeated exper- 
ience has shown to be of value. If we do neg- 
lect material aid and trust alone to the power 
of the Creator within, we are only complying 
with part of the conditions of "faith." This 
word "faith" has proven a stumbling-block to 
many, and those "blind leaders of the blind" 
who do not understand the real truth, have 
demonstrated that the premise "Mortal Mind 
is Error" when applied to themselves is un- 
doubtedly correct. Truth alone is immortal; 
its quality is unchangeable, it can differ only 
in degree. 



ONLY THE WISE UNDERSTAND. 

"The Jews answered him, saying, For a 
good work we stone thee not; but for blas- 
phemy, and because that thou, being a man, 
makest thyself God." (John X, 33.) 

The soul of man, by a process not as yet 
thoroughly understood, is able to reach out, or 
travel across endless space and receive from a 
sub-division of Infinite mind any knowledge 
which that sub-division may contain. This 
process we call telepathy. The soul by its 
psychic power over the material form through 
which it is manifest, gives this knowledge 
which it has gained to the objective mind, 
clairvoyantly, clairaudiently or by intuition. I 
submit, that the actual perception of any im- 
pression is a psychic, not a physical process; 
it does not matter whether the impression comes 
from a real object, an impression upon a pho- 
tographic plate, or the image formed within 
the eye, the ultimate process by which we per- 
ceive the form and features of any object is a 
psychic impression. It is the same process we 
use in contemplating things in the abstract or 
in creating mental images of forms of which 



128 ONLY THE WISE UNDERSTAND. 

we have had no impression through physical 
senses. There are some who would have us 
believe that this mental process is erroneous, 
yet who does not trust their very existence to 
this psychic principle? We stand at the edge 
of some great precipice, we confidently take a 
step nearer, yet if our psychic interpretation of 
the exact location of the chasm had been in- 
correct, we would have fallen into the bot- 
tomless abyss. We conclude, therefore, that 
our psychic interpretation is correct. 

Able theorists, by a scientific analysis and 
study of that higher faculty within man which 
we term the subjective mind or soul, have 
clearly demonstrated that this manifestation 
through man has every essential attribute of 
Omniscience, every power of Omnipotence, 
with a difference only of degree, and that the 
telepathic power of the soul, when expanded 
to infinity, is Omnipresence. 

What have we demonstrated ? That we are 
omnipresent in so far as we are conscious of 
any other part. I submit, that Omniscience 
would not be conscious of some distant atom 
in the infinitude of space unless its conscious- 
ness was directed toward that atom, but that 
it or we may be conscious of anything toward 
which our attention may be directed, we have 
sufficient proof in telepathic phenomena. 

Is it any wonder, that as the soul can only 



ONLY THE WISE UNDERSTAND. 129 

reveal itself through some manifestation of the 
organism through which it moves, that we are 
prone to think that we are that organism ? But 
self can never comprehend self, and as we can 
dissect the confederacy of cells which we call 
our body, it cannot be our real self; and still 
we see the action of our soul, are supercon- 
scious to it, then we are higher than the part. 
What, then, are we? The answer thrills, be- 
wilders and astounds, and He who first per- 
ceived and proclaimed this overwhelming an- 
swer was put to death upon a cross. He, even 
Jesus, who first realized that the soul of man 
was God, that there was no higher power in 
all infinity than that manifesting through the 
soul of man, was slain because he said that it 
was God. The soul is God's manifestation 
through a part. And this profound conclusion 
removes the last vestige of a doubt which we 
may have held about the immortality of the 
soul, for as long as one star remains to send 
out its silent beams of light into dark depths 
of space, as long as there is one form in all the 
infinitude of space pulsating with life, we, you, 
I, shall be immortal. For we, you, I, and they 
are God. 

Let us trace the light of some distant sun 
as it pierces through and becomes dispersed in 
the infinite depths of space. Are we not there 
also? Let us pass beyond the limits of our 



130 ONLY THE WISE UNDERSTAND. 

universe, beyond a vast emptiness of space, 
through a myriad of systems and worlds simi- 
lar to ours, through depths of space and worlds 
again, until finally the limit of permutations 
and combinations of material atoms have been 
reached, and we again behold a universe the 
exact duplicate of our own even to- the tiniest 
atom. Repeat this process to infinity, and we 
find that our universe is duplicated in its every 
manifestation an infinite number of times. 

Do you now comprehend the first object of 
evolution? Its object was to so perfect the 
evolving form that it might at last compre- 
hend the Creator who is the source of all mani- 
festations through it. Could any greater crime 
be conceived in the mind of man, than the 
crucifixion of that form which had first been 
inspired to know that the soul of man is a 
manifestation of God? In all the history of 
mankind there is nothing that can compare to, 
that equals in horror, the wickedness of those 
who sought to destroy the omniscient form of 
the Saviour. Is it any wonder that the earth 
shook, that the sun was darkened when the soul 
of the Master was loosed from its body? Let 
us ever reverence the holy name of Jesus. 
"Neither is there salvation in any other." 
"For there is none other name under heaven 
given among men whereby we must be saved." 



THE POWER OF THE SOUL. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he 
do also; and greater works than these shall 
he do; because I go unto my Father." (John 
XIV, 12.) 

Is there any limit to this power within man ? 
I say, THERE IS NO LIMIT, except that 
given to it by the imperfectness of the form 
through which it is manifest. It took JESUS 
thirty years to so perfect himself in wisdom 
and faith that he might commence his won- 
derful career, and even the Saviour was tempt- 
ed to give his life up to an unworthy purpose. 
After he had fasted and meditated upon the 
wonderful truths which he had been Divinely 
inspired to know, his normal mind argues 
thus : If this is really true that the soul of 
man is God, that there is no higher power in 
all infinity than this manifested through man, 
"Command that these stones be made bread," 
and thus satisfy your hunger. And again, 
when he was upon the pinnacle of the temple, 
he reasons thus to himself: If this is really 



132 THE POWER OF THE SOUL. 

so that "thou be the Son of God," that thou art 
the Messiah who was first to realize these 
truths concerning the soul, and of whom the 
prophets have written, "He shall give his an- 
gels charge concerning thee; and in their hands 
shall they bear thee up, lest at any time thou 
dash thy foot against a stone," why, then, can 
you not cast yourself from this pinnacle and 
reach the ground uninjured? But Jesus con- 
cludes not to put his faith to the test by trying 
to perform senseless miracles, for it was also 
written, "Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy 
God." 

And again, when he views the material 
glory of earthly kingdoms, the thought comes 
to him : I have been inspired to know a truth 
concerning the soul of man; and I am the first 
and only being in all the long chain of evolu- 
tion who has realized that God is manifest in 
the soul of man; if I were to use this knowl- 
edge which I have gained and the unlimited 
power which it gives me, to advance myself in 
a material way, without giving God the glory, 
I could become ruler of the whole world. But 
he overcomes his temptation, and even gives 
his life upon the cross that he may redeem the 
world from error. What an example has this 
great Teacher set for us. Who will follow it? 
Who will be despised, persecuted and rejected 
of men that he may in some way serve this 



THE POWER OF THE SOUL. 133 

Omnipotent Ruler of Life? Have you had 
past errors ? Have you been weak and yielded 
up to material desires? Let this not hinder 
your coming to the Light. No matter what 
your past life may have been, no matter if you 
have broken each and all of the Ten Command- 
ments, if you will now be guided by that still 
voice within, God Omnipotent will help you to 
a higher life, for has not Jesus said, "If a man 
love me, he will keep my words; and my 
Father will love him and we will come unto 
him, and make our abode in him." There is 
not one creature who does not, consciously or 
unconsciously, trust the Divine Ruler. None 
but a fool can deny the existence of God. 



''There is no unbelief. 
Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod 
And waits for it to push away the clod, 
He trusts in God. 

Whoever says, to-morrow, the unknown, 
The future, trusts that power alone, 
He dares disown. 

Whoever sees beneath the winter's snow 
The silent harvests of the future grow 
God's power must know. 

Whoever lays upon his couch to sleep, 
Content to lock each sense in slumber deep, 
Knows God will keep. 



134 THE POWER OF THE SOUL. 

Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, 
Be patient heart, light breaketh by and by, 
Trusts the most High. 

The heart that look on when the eyelids close 
And dares to live when life has only woes 
God's comfort knows. 

There is no unbelief. 
And day by day and night, unconsciously, 
The soul lives by that faith its lips deny. 

God knoweth why." 



WHAT IS SIN? 

"To him that knoweth to do good and 
doeth it not, to him it is sin." 

That, and only that, which in any way in- 
terferes or hinders the successful outcome of 
some Divine plan can be regarded as sin, or 
as something that would not be right to do. 
The only object that I can see in all these gen- 
erations of births and deaths, is that the soul 
is seeking to evolve a form which may be both 
material and immortal and thus work out its 
own salvation. Then nothing is a sin unless it 
in some way interferes with some higher cause 
or hinders the transmission of knowledge, of 
health, of strength, of perfectness of form, or 
any other condition or quality which may be 
essential to the higher evolution of future gen- 
erations, to a future generation. There is no 
hell, except that which man makes for himself 
on earth. The body through sinning against 
itself suffers sickness and death ; this, however, 
is not counted as sin if some worthy object is 
accomplished, as where one uses up his strength 
and vitality while working for those he loves, 



136 WHAT IS SIN? 

or gives up his life to save the life of others or 
to benefit future generations, "For greater love 
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his 
life for his friends." And Jesus taught us that 
if we did not love and help one another every 
time opportunity offered, were the other a 
friend or enemy, it would be counted against 
us as sin. But if we love God with all our 
hearts and our neighbor as ourself, we need 
not have further creed, for "On these two 
commandments hang all the Law and the 
Prophets." 

These are the words of the Christ, and God 
through Moses spoke thus concerning him: 
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will 
not hearken unto my words which he shall 
speak in my name, / will require it of him." 
Why do we see the churches throughout the 
land but partly filled with people upon that day 
set apart for rest and worship? Why do we 
find the majority of those who are there grow- 
ing cold and indifferent? It is because "This 
people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, 
and honoureth me with their lips, but their 
heart is far from me." "But in vain do they 
worship me, teaching for doctrines the com- 
mandments of men." "It is impossible but that 
offences will come ; but woe unto him through 
whom they come." Will not God require it 
of those teachers and preachers in the pulpits 



WHAT IS SIN? 137 

to-day who are teaching these man-made doc- 
trines, who from the very unreasonableness of 
their creeds, are keeping many stumbling in 
darkness who> really desire to walk in the light 
of Truth ? I say unto you, He will require it 
of them to "the uttermost farthing." And it 
were better for one of these false teachers who 
are keeping this world in darkness by his empty 
words and by his still more empty life, his 
"faith without works," "that a millstone were 
hanged about his neck, and that he were 
drowned in the depths of the sea." 

To whom shall I liken these blind leaders 
of the blind? They are like those certain dis- 
ciples at Ephesus of whom Paul asked, "Have 
ye received the Holy Ghost?" and who an- 
swered, "We have not so much as heard wheth- 
er there be any Holy Ghost." 

This question of regeneration with the gift 
of the Holy Ghost should be of most vital im- 
portance to every thinking human being. It has 
a direct relation to ourselves, to our life, both 
present and future, and the Master has said 
that unless a man be born again he cannot see 
the Kingdom of God. Many have become in- 
different to this Divine conception. They feel 
a superb contempt for those who are trying 
to pierce into the beyond and to demonstrate 
the true doctrine of Christ. They are still 
clamouring for a sign from heaven, that they 



138 WHAT IS SIN? 

may believe. And false prophets have deluded 
them with signs (?) to their heart's content. 
"But he that believeth not is condemned al- 
ready." "And this is the condemnation, that 
light is come into the world, and men loved 
darkness rather than light because their deeds 
were evil." 

Unbelief and skepticism concerning the in- 
visible world and the future life ar synony- 
mous with ignorance, and all the affirmations 
and denials of the materialists and teachers of 
man-made doctrines, who know nothing con- 
cerning the immortality and Omnipotence of 
the soul, are as valueless as the argument of 
two flies in your window disputing the outcome 
of the Russia-Japan war. 



SOME OF THE CONDITIONS. 

"And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, say- 
ing, Go anal wash in Jordan seven times, and thy 
flesh shall come again unto thee, and thou shalt be 
clean." 

"But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and 
said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out 
unto me, and stand, and call on the name of the 
Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, 
and recover the leper/' (2 Kings, v., 10-11.) 

• The conditions required for the manifesta- 
tions of the higher forces of the soul are so simple 
that they are rejected for their very simplicity. 
"Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not be- 
lieve." Many fail to accomplish anything of real 
value because they do not have a constant desire 
or high aim. It is the "crank" or person with a 
"hobby" or mission who succeeds. Prayer is of 
no value unless it is accompanied by a strong de- 
sire, a desire so strong that it will overcome any 
other desire which would in any way hinder you 
in obtaining the One Great Aim. Get some worthy 
aim and concentrate upon it until it becomes up- 



140 SOME OF THE CONDITIONS. 

permost in your mind, until it becomes so ever 
present in your thoughts that you will refer every 
conscious action to it. Then every time that you 
are tempted to yield to the influence of some habit 
or moral weakness; before you think one other 
thought, or allow yourself to perform one further 
action, ask yourself this question: WILL IT 
HELP OE HINDER ME IK THE ATTAIN- 
MENT OF MY ONE GEEAT AIM? Then if 
your aim is really worthy, if you are really sincere 
in your efforts to obtain it and desire it above all 
things, the strongest emotion will always prevail 
and if what you were about to do would hinder 
or prevent you, directly or indirectly, from ob- 
taining your great desire, then you certainly would 
not do it. This mental process is one of the many 
great aids in overcoming error, it comes as one 
of the great results of concentration, it is a ma- 
terial copy of conscience, as it fights carnal de- 
sire with carnal desire, ,and if you will get some 
high aim and let it rule your life, this process 
will work in you the mightiest revolution that 
you have ever seen. ) 

/Yet, there is one point further which must 
be clearly understood; We have no freedom of will. 
We cannot always do as we wish to, yet the ma- 
jority of people still think man has free will, 
notwithstanding the teachings of both atheist and 
theologist. That this is not the case anyone by 
introspection may easily demonstrate for himself. 



SOME OF THE CONDITIONS. 141 

Anyone may make decisions and resolutions re- 
garding a future course of action, but each act of 
the will is now known to be fatally determined 
by the past as well as the present mental and physi- 
cal condition of the individual, and to be further 
modified by the momentary condition of his en- 
vironment. We cannot make an immediate and 
permanent change in our life until we are able 
to rise above our physical environment — until we 
are able to overcome inclinations arising from 
past habits of our own or those which we have 
received as the result of hereditary influence, but 
in any case the strongest emotional desire over- 
comes the weaker one if the former is kept before 
the mind by concentration. 

Our ability to explain the past and predict 
the future arises from the conviction that the 
same causes always produce the same effects. These 
"effects" are synonymous with "fate" or "destiny," 
something that cannot be changed, and in seeking 
to change our present moral tendencies or habits, 
we must trace back the chain of events in our life 
until we discover the causes responsible for our 
present weakness, and endeavor to eliminate them. 
If it is our environment, then we must rise above 
it. If it is physical weakness, then we must ac- 
quire strength, and if we are successful in produc- 
ing a condition in these two necessary concomi- 
tants of being that is favorable for our desire, our 
moral condition depends then entirely upon men- 



142 SOME OF THE CONDITIONS. 

tal action, and it is then true that "as a man 
thinketh in his heart, so he is." Each wrong act 
is committed one hundred times in thought to one 
in deed, and if you are constantly harboring 
thoughts of gain, or of plundering your fellow- 
man, you would do the latter if opportunity should 
arise, notwithstanding all your efforts and desire 
to resist the temptation, but "We know that who- 
soever is born of God cannot sin." And if you are 
constantly thinking good and charitable thoughts 
toward all mankind, and do not harbor in your 
heart one harsh or unforgiving thought against 
anyone you know, it will be impossible for you 
to do anything very wrong. And you will also 
be made happier as the result of this better way 
of living and thinking. 



ONE POWEE RULES ALL. 

"Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, 
and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all 
things ye are too superstitious. 

"For as I passed by, and beheld your devo- 
tions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO 
THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom* therefore ye ig- 
norantly worship, him declare I unto you." (Acts 
XVII., 22-23.) 



There rules here a power, eternal and sure, 
Creator of life since worlds did endure 

And giving to each moving planet a place 
To travel and shine forever in space. 

If mortal could see enthroned in the skies 
This Ruler of Life, All-Mighty, All-Wise, 

Perhaps then the sight would make him more strong 
To battle in life with error and wrong. 

But we who have heard that still voice within 
That guides us aright and warns us of sin; 

Who feel oft a tremor than none can define, 
Know we have within us this power Divine. 



144 ONE POWER RULES ALL. 

And whether with great telescope, we behold 
Some bright fiery sun or a star dark and cold, 

Or through microscope look down at the small, 
We find this Omniscience is ruling us all. 

The God of the Christian, almighty and just, 

The great "Law of Substance," which atheists trust, 

The "Cause and Effect" that treats all the same, 
Is this Ruler Divine with changes in name. 



The future will see no theorem stand 

With verdict "not proven'' but all will demand 

That he who advances a creed or belief 
Shall verify every point in his "brief." 

Believe what you may, in a Being All-Wise, 
Or in Forces that dwell unseen in the skies, 

It matters not what this power you call, 
Your actions alone, are judged after all. 



Do you know that the monists and atheists 
philosophers — like Darwin, Huxley, Spencer, 
Haeckle, etc. — have done more to disseminate real 
truth and understanding concerning the Omnipo- 
tent Euler — have done more to rid this world of 
superstition and error than have nine-tenths of the 
teachers of theology ? I wish I could state it truth- 
fully otherwise, hut I cannot. The objective phil- 
osophers, reasoning from the known to the un- 
known — by collecting and classifying facts per- 
taining to any particular branches of natural phe- 



ONE POWER RULES ALL. 145 

nomena — have shown us that the Creator works 
through certain immutable laws. 

Darwin has shown us that man is a product 
— a marvelous product — of evolution. That is, 
by a gradual change in the forms and mental fac- 
ulties of lower orders of life, and through the 
"survival of the fittest" man was finally evolved. 
That this evolution has not yet ceased with man 
is plainly evident to all close observers, for just 
in proportion as the mind of man becomes better 
adapted to further the great aim of the Creator, 
will he receive more divine forces and faculties 
from this Ruler of Life. Thus Darwin has given 
us a grander^ nobler conception of this Great 
Cause, who, working through immutable laws, has 
created this all-harmonious universe and peopled 
this earth with beings whose manifestations have 
all the essential attributes of the Creator, who from 
the very nature of the manifestations through their 
organisms reveal the presence of the Creator with- 
in. We cannot clearly conceive the existence of 
man without the presence of the Creator. We 
are positive that gross matter has no life of itself, 
we are thinking, living, moving, because the Great 
Cause has formed and fitted us that he might man- 
ifest his attributes through us, even as the electric 
light shines or the motor whirls when the electric 
current is sent through these forms which were 
built for their respective purposes. 

Huxley has endeavored to show us that the be- 

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146 ONE POWER RULES ALL. 

lief in a personal Devil, or in demonical possession 
is not consistent with the knowledge we now pos- 
sess concerning the seen and unseen worlds or of 
the make-up of the human organism. Whether 
he is correct or not in this conclusion, I will leave 
to the consideration of my readers. He has, how- 
ever, pleaded for a wider use of the Bible as an 
aid to a higher education, and while he regards it 
as — what it really is — merely a history of the 
life and religion of the oldest nations in the 
world, and in which without doubt many errors 
in the text have resulted from frequent trans- 
lations, yet it is the best record that we now 
have of the doings and beliefs of our ancient 
ancestors. And he further asks, in his plea for 
a more general study of this "best of books:" 
"By the study of what other book could children 
be so much humanized and made to feel that each 
figure in that vast historical procession fills, like 
themselves, but a momentary space in the interval 
between the Eternities; and earns the blessings or 
the curses of all time, according to its effort to do 
good and hate evil, even as they are also earning 
their payment for their work ?" 

Spencer opened up the way for a higher com- 
prehension of the power of mind — clearly illustrat- 
ing that its power over the body is actually super- 
ior to any disease. 

Haeckle, the most material of monistic phil- 



ONE POWER RULES ALL. 147 

osophers, unconsciously shows us, in his writings, 
that the "law of substance," which, seemingly, is 
his only creed, is synonymous with our highest 
conception of the omnipresent and immortal Spirit 
of God. 

The scientist is a seeker after truth; he accepts 
"truth for authority, and not authority for 
truth/' and if he finds an incontestible fact in na- 
ture out of harmony with some biblical record, 
he does not hesitate to proclaim it. The scientist 
is honest ; he desires to get at the real truth of the 
matter, even if his discoveries do upset some of the 
teachings of theology. He is so positive that two 
and two make four that he has very little respect 
for those who would have us believe that their 
sum could at any time make five or six. Still these 
objective reasoners are after all mere machines; 
it is only when they have developed a keen intui- 
tion that they may be classed as men of genius. 
And while these scientists have done much to dis- 
pel the false premises inculcated in our minds by 
the errors and superstitions of past ages, yet there 
is a power or faculty in man which enables him, 
under certain conditions, produced by concentra- 
tion or subjective control, to intuitively perceive 
essential truth without the aid of reason or ob- 
jective education, and in all ages many persons 
have possessed this psychic power to a remarkable 
degree. It is this power we term genius. It has 
been said that "Genius is not a creator in the sense 



148 ONE POWER RULES ALL. 

of fancying or feigning what does not exist; its 
distinction is to discern more of Truth than ordi- 
nary minds." Genius is that faculty within man 
which knows without knowing why it knows. The 
guesses of men of genius are often worth more 
than all the scientific research of lesser lights. It 
was said of Washington : "Such was the wisdom of 
his views, and the philosophy of his counsels that 
to the soldier and the patriot he almost added the 
character of the sage/' It is also worthy of re- 
mark that Newton, after defining the laws, rules 
or observed order of the phenomena of motion, 
which he termed gravitation, had conjectured the 
density of the Earth to be between five and six 
times the density of water. Over a century later, 
after numerous experiments with delicate appa- 
ratus, the mean density of the Earth was deter- 
mined by other scientists to be about 5.66 times 
that of water. If, however, we trust alone to in- 
tuition, and ignore reason, it is liable (as in the 
latter life of Newton) to land us into absurdities 
and mysticism. 

The time for blind faith is nearly past. Since 
man has commenced to reason inductively, that is, 
from particular facts up to general principles or 
axioms, he has acquired a clearer understanding 
of the process of life and of both psychic and phys- 
ical phenomena. 

At the time the Master was teaching the true 
way of life people knew very little about them- 



ONE POWER RULES ALL. 149 

selves, and much less about the shape, size and 
movement of the earth, and it is only recently 
that we, by making such a great progress in phys- 
ical knowledge, are able to understand in a way 
the action of the invisible forces of the soul by a 
comparison to physical phenomena. And while 
the astounding discoveries in the physical and 
chemical world and in the evolution of life seemed 
for a time to obviate the necessity of a Creator, 
yet it was only because our conception of this 
Great Cause had been too insignificant, and we 
find as our knowledge has increased that this Great 
Euler of Life is farther than ever beyond our 
comprehension. 



THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 

"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge 
shall be increased." (Daniel XII., 4.) 

There is no power that mortal here may find 
More beneficial than the concentrated mind. 

For thus has man his many wonders wrought 
By study deep and never ceasing thought. 

He thinks, then lo! the very lightning's power 
Obeys his will to light the midnight hour, 

And through the streets while under human spell 
This unseen power his vehicles propel. 

He thinks, and now with fast increasing speed 
From coast to coast he glides with iron steed, 

And with an odd conception of his mind 
His voice is heard by those he leaves behind. 

By thought of man the planets of the sky 
Are studied now with once unseeing eye, 

Their movements with precision are foretold 
Defining too their state of heat or cold. 

He speaks his thoughts, and multitudes are still 
And make obeisance to his mighty will, 

Controlling mind, he causes pain to cease, 
Destroying, too, that enemy, disease. 



152 THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 

Think on, O man, if thou would here attain 
To earthly fame and heavenly honors gain 

And knowledge so that thou thy soul may save, 
To penetrate the life beyond the grave. 



In this last decade there has been a most re- 
markable advance in science and invention; seem- 
ingly impossible difficulties in the physical world 
have been overcome and things which have been 
obscure and hidden for ages are now becoming to 
be well understood by all classes; it is also plainly 
evident that the mind of man is reaching a higher 
consciousness; the soul by its mysterious power of 
intuition is apparently able to know the thoughts 
of others without the intermediary of the senses. 
No matter how polished may be the exterior form, 
unless you are true and sincere you will not de- 
ceive the world long, for whether you know it or 
not the invisible radiance from the soul becomes 
perceptible to those about you and by the secret 
thoughts which you may think are hidden within 
your heart are you judged, not by those you utter, 
and if you write to a friend and are not sincere 
in your motives, he will read between the lines 
and intuitively feel that you are not true. 

We are in the commencement of a new spir- 
itual epoch and the soul with all the diverse and 
irresistible powers of the unseen realms is making 
a mighty effort for recognition; spiritual mani- 
festations are reported everywhere, startling and 



THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 153 

seemingly miraculous, and the most profound 
thinkers no longer prescribe limits to the power 
of the soul. 

The soul, the Infinite Creator within, has ac- 
quired five physical senses with which it receives 
impressions from the four other great Infinities — 
time, space, the elemental substance and motion 
and their many combinations. All the impres- 
sions received by the senses — hearing, sight, smell, 
taste and touch — are composed of only matter and 
motion, modified by magnitude and duration. 
Sound is the impression conveyed to the mind 
by vibration. When the vibrations are beyond 
seven or eight times per second, the mind fails 
to recognize the distinct and successive sounds 
and the vibrations from then up to 36,000 per 
second are recognized as musical tones. As each 
vibration consists of two movements, back and 
forth, the trained musical ear by its ability to 
distinguish the difference between the various tones, 
is literally able to count 72,000 movements per 
second. 

The sounds produced by many insects are so 
acute as to baffle the human ear to distinguish 
them. It is asserted by naturalists that there are 
many sounds in nature too acute for human ears, 
which are yet perfectly appreciated by the ani- 
mals to which they are notes of warning, or calls 
of attraction. Eeason tells us there can be no 
more limit to the fractional division of time than 



154 THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 

there can be to the addition of years to the fast 
receding ages. A million years is no longer than 
one second when compared with absolute time. All 
knowledge that we have of time is by comparison ; 
of absolute time we can form no conception; it to 
us is an imaginary signification of duration, meas- 
ured by the periodicity of events within the com- 
prehension of the mind, such as the moment, hour, 
day, year, etc., but these divisions are lost by their 
insignificance when compared to the great bewil- 
dering past or to the incomprehensible future. 
Time is one eternal now. If there were no events 
taking place we would have nothing with which 
to compare its flight. It is because the units of 
measurement are comparatively large with which 
we reckon the lapse of time that makes us think 
of its flight as rapid. It is the "point of view" that 
is responsible for all our mental conceptions. To 
the tiny microscopic bacillus whose life lasts less 
than one second, and during which time it repro- 
duces thousands of its kind, our day would seem 
an eternity, yet, undoubtedly to the comprehen- 
sion of its intellect its life seems to cover a very 
long period of time. 

When dreaming or in the trance or trancoid 
state, the mind often seems to have experienced 
years in the space of a few moments. An intuitive 
thought arising while the mind is in this subjective 
state, may often only be the result of an incon- 
ceivably rapid inductive and deductive mental 



THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 155 

process. Before the mind is trained to reason in 
the abstract every mental process is accompanied 
by a physical conception or impression, and while 
repetition makes the process more rapid there is 
still a physical limit to the speed of mental action, 
but after the mind is trained to reason with sym- 
bols and algebraic formulas, the conceptions of the 
mind appear to follow each other without inter- 
val. We can also conceive the possibility of a 
much more rapid action of the mind, for when we 
come to examine the phenomena of sight we find 
that the eye in its ability to recognize the different 
colors, must be able to distinguish between the 
different rates of movement in a medium with un- 
dulations at the rate of hundreds of trillion per 
second. The mind is staggered by this vast num- 
ber which one could not count in a million years, 
counting three per second night and day, yet the 
undulations of the ether that give us the impres- 
sion of the color red, are at the rate of 380 trillion 
per second, while those that give us the impres- 
sion of the color violet are 760 trillion per second,* 
the intermediate colors being those produced by 
the etheric vibrations between those of red and 
those of violet. The undulations of Eontgen or 

♦According to Eisenlohr (Am. Jour. Sci. [2] XXII.), the length 
of the vibrations in the extreme red ray is just double the length 
of the vibrations of the invisible rays beyond the violet, which, by 
concentration, produce the lavender light of Herschel. The 
entire range of visible rays differs in the length of vibrations only 
the amount of one octave in music. 



156 THE CONQUESTS OF MIND. 

X-rays have been conjectured to be about 1,000 
times as rapid as those of light. Heat is also due 
to etheral vibrations of the same and of a lower 
order than those of light. It remains only to ex- 
plain, by these movements of the ether, the nu- 
merous and complex phenomena which are pre- 
sented to us by electricity, and to conceive how 
these undulatory movements produce attraction 
and repulsion as in the phenomena of magnetism 
and gravitation. How these latter phenomena may 
be produced by etheric movement I will present 
clearly in future chapters. 



A STUDY OF HIS WOKKS. 

GEAVITATIOIST. 

"When I consider thy heavens, the works of 
thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou 
hast ordained; 

"What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? 
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?" 
(Psalm VIII, 3-4.) 

"If I have told you earthly things, and ye 
believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of 
heavenly things?" (John III, 12.) 

It is only by a careful study of the great forces 
of Nature that we are enabled to form a worthy 
conception of the Great Power that rules over all, 
and thus we can understand heavenly things only 
by comparing them to earthly things. 

Since Newton defined the observed order of 
the phenomena of motion, the doctrine of gravi- 
tation has been admitted and many have expounded 
its laws, but it has now acquired the character of 
an ultimate fact rather than of a fact to be explain- 
ed, and though many theories have been forthcom- 
ing to account for the phenomena of attraction, so 
far, none have been accompanied by sufficient proof 



158 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

or evidence to warrant general acceptance. And 
while one class of thinkers try to explain this phe- 
nomena by physical laws or the impact theory, the 
other class not finding sufficient evidence to sup- 
port that theory, define gravitation as a quality 
essential and inherent in all matter, ascribing to 
it the power of actio in distorts. That both classes 
are in a certain sense correct will be seen in the 
explanation which I am about to present of this 
phenomena. 

That Newton did not attribute to matter the 
inherent quality of actio in distans, the following 
quotation from a letter to Bentley illustrates: "It 
is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter 
should, without the mediation of something else 
which is not material, operate on and affect other 
matter without mutual contact, as it must do if 
gravitation, in the sense of Epicuris, be essential 
and inherent in all matter, and this is the reason 
why I desired that you would not ascribe innate 
gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, in- 
herent and essential in matter, so that one body 
may act upon another at a distance, through a 
vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 
by and through which their action may be con- 
veyed from one to another, is to me so great an 
absurdity that I believe that no man who has in 
philosophical matters a competent faculty of 
thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be 
caused by an agent acting constantly according 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 159 

to certain laws; but whether this agent be ma- 
terial or immaterial, I have left to the considera- 
tion of my readers." 

LeSage of Geneva tried to explain the attrac- 
tion of gravitation with "ultramundane cor- 
puscles," and while his theory was somewhat in- 
genious and has been the subject of much specu- 
lation, it has been abandoned as impractical. Euler 
attributed the attraction of gravitation to be due 
either to a spirit or to that of some subtle material 
medium escaping the perception of our senses. And 
he insisted that the latter was the only alternative 
admissible, although admitting with others that it 
might be difficult to give an exact demonstration of 
gravitative force, or to explain it as the result of 
etheric undulations. 

Without commenting further on the theories 
of others I will give the result of some experiments 
which I conducted several years ago in my endea- 
vor to solve this mystifying problem and to for- 
mulate a theory that would explain the phenomena 
of gravitation, and which facts and experiment 
would corroborate. And while some of the phe- 
nomena obtained as the result of my experiments 
may have been observed by others, yet I think that 
I have made quite a little progress in this line of 
research. 

While having some castings finished with a 
milling machine, I noticed a peculiar action of 
the finer particles of metal that had collected on 



160 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

the table of the machine. They advanced in a 
body toward the revolving cutter that was trim- 
ming the edge of the casting, as it started to cut 
into an air-hole in the casting, and just as the 
cutter started to cut out the other side of the air- 
hole they receded to their former position on the 
table. Being curious as to the exact 'cause of this 
phenomena I watched the machine for some time, 
and found that this movement of the particles 
on the table was caused by the "jerky" vibrations 
given the table by the revolving cutter; that is, 
the movement of the vibration one way was 
quicker than that the other way. This same phe- 
nomena would occur if you placed a coin upon a 
table and tapped the side of the table with a ham- 
mer, when the coin in every case would approach 
the hammer. The reason of this phenomena is that 
matter from its inertia is moved farther by the 
friction of a slow moving medium than it would 
be if the movement of the propelling medium were 
more- rapid. An ordinary illustration of this fact 
is given when one is prematurely seated by the 
sudden starting of his carriage. 

Soon after noticing the phenomena produced 
by uneven vibrations I began a series of experi- 
ments with a variety of apparatus, hoping that by 
classifying the results of my experiments, I might 
arrive at a general conclusion, or perhaps dis- 
cover the secret of all attraction. On suspending 
two hollow balls near each other that were made 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 161 

to vibrate by internal mechanism, I found that 
they had a tendency to approach each other and 
that light bodies when suspended near a vibrat- 
ing ball would be drawn slightly toward the lat- 
ter. I have not the space to mention all the ex- 
periments that I conducted to cause light sus- 
pended bodies to approach a certain point from 
all directions, but will give the two following: I 
had a "sausage shaped" fuse made with charges 
of powder in it every little distance from each 
other, and this was coiled in clay and put in a 
hole in the center of a large iron plate, and by the 
successive explosions of these small charges of 
powder, attraction was produced toward the cen- 
ter of the iron plate by the vibrating air. I was 
also successful in producing a slight attraction 
toward discharging points which were electrified 
by a static electric generator. The conclusion I 
reached from these and further experiments I give 
as follows: Spherical vibrations sent out by a 
body contracting and expanding (1) when the 
body in expanding gives the primary impulse 
causes the matter to be attracted toward the body 
as the outgoing wave, whether in the ether or air, 
is more rapid than the return wave; (2) when the 
body in contraction gives the primary impulse the 
wave in the medium towards the body will be more 
rapid than the one leaving it, consequently, matter 
is then repelled by the body. 

To explain the attraction of gravitation we 

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162 A STUDY OP HIS WORKS. 

must notice the effect of molecular vibration, or 
discharge, upon the ether that fills all space. 
Waves of ether set up by molecular discharge 
would be of spherical form somewhat analogous 
to those of sound, consisting of waves of condensa- 
tion and rarification. These waves spreading out 
in all directions from the center of discharge by 
their slower return movement would naturally at- 
tract all matter coming under their influence 
toward the body of matter in which the waves orig- 
inated. We also find that this explanation of 
gravity is in harmony with the laws of specific 
gravity of matter, which varies in direct propor- 
tion with the molecules of matter, or with the re- 
sistance which they have to the passage of the 
etheric waves^ and in an inverse ratio with the 
square of the distance between their centers of 
greatest resistance of the attracting bodies. 

It is obvious that the force of gravity at any 
point beneath the surface of the earth is dimin- 
ished by the attraction of whatever part of the 
earth is above the particle attracted, and the re- 
sultant force is the difference between the two 
components. That the loss of weight in a par- 
ticle is more than would result from the above I 
have concluded from further experiments. 

At the time I was experimenting with gravi- 
tational phenomena I had recently designed an 
electro-magnetic weighing machine that had for 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 163 

its office the automatic separation of coins and 
other articles at a certain required weight, and for 
experimental purposes had constructed a very del- 
icate and sensitive spring balance with an indi- 
cator to show the variation of a grain in weight. 
After making many experiments with this delicate 
balance in tunnels, and over and under masses of 
great specific gravity, the conclusion was forced 
upon me that the body of matter above the at- 
tracted particle not only attracted the particle in 
proportion to the mass of the former, but that by 
its resistance to the passage of the gravitational 
waves to and from the earth it further decreased 
the weight of the particle. 

Some substances, like gold, platinum, etc., 
which have a great specific gravity, being so dense 
as to offer great resistance to the passage of ethe- 
real waves, the thought naturally arises that these 
substances would be heated by the passage of the 
gravitational waves through them. To show why 
this heating would not take place I will explain 
the relation of some of the known etheric vibra- 
tions. Those etheric undulations with which I 
have endeavored to explain gravitation may be 
considered as vibrations of a pitch far beyond those 
of light and heat from the fact that no matter 
has as yet been found opaque to, or unable to re- 
sist the penetrating power of these waves. If a 
substance were discovered opaque to these waves 



164 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

it would receive the full propelling force from the 
primary etheric wave emanating from matter, and 
thus be repelled by all matter and driven from the 
earth with the greatest speed conceivable, or, as I 
hinted at in a former article, would be annihilated 
by the impact of the etheric waves, would be ex- 
ploded or separated into its elementary molecules. 
It is the law, or observed order of all etheric vibra- 
tions, that when such waves meet with resistance 
their vibrations are reduced to a lower pitch; thus, 
when those undulations of a higher pitch than 
light come in contact with certain metals like ra- 
dium, uranium, etc., they meet with resistance 
and are slowed down until we recognize them 
as light. Slow down those of light by concen- 
trating them with a lens and the vibrations of 
heat are felt; cover a pane of your window with 
smoke and the glass becomes heated, while before 
the sunlight passes through the glass without per- 
ceptibly raising its temperature; concentrate these 
heat vibrations on two metals of different fusibil- 
ity, having the metals soldered together where the 
heat is concentrated, and with the other ends of 
the two pieces of metal so connected as to form 
an electric circuit, and the heat vibrations will 
generate an electric current in the circuit thus 
formed. Cause' the electric vibrations to pass 
through a coil of resistance wire surrounding an 
iron core, and magnetic vibrations are set up in 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 165 

the iron core; by interrupting the electric current 
waves of ether of various pitch may be produced. 
It has been conjectured that the vibrations of 
ether identical with electricity have a pitch of 
about 1,000,000,000 per second, those of the Eont- 
gen or X-ray about 1,000 times of light. Waves 
of ether producing the phenomena of gravitation 
would first have to be reduced to the pitch of 
those of the X-ray and then to those of light be- 
fore they could be transformed into heat vibra- 
tions. If this is the correct solution of gravita- 
tion, I might make the conjecture that these 
waves of the highest pitch may prove to be the 
source of all these of lower pitch, as we cannot 
by concentration of heat produce any higher tem- 
perature than the source of the heat, and we may 
assume that it is impossible to raise the pitch of 
any of the etheric undulations by concentration. 
This explanation which I have presented to ac- 
count for the phenomena of gravitation is only 
theory, but I think that those who have thus far 
followed it can hardly deny the correctness of my 
reasoning coupled as it has been with facts and 
experiment, and in the following chapter it will 
be further brought into prominence by a new ex- 
planation which I will offer for the attraction and 
repulsion of magnetism. 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

MAGNETISM. 

"All things were made by him; and without 
him was not anything made that was made." (John 
I, 3.) 

Notwithstanding the many and great services 
performed for us by that subtle force we call elec- 
tricity, we must confess that we have as yet only 
vague conceptions of the real nature of this mys- 
terious power. But rather than multiply causes 
we may rightly assume that the many manifesta- 
tions of electrical phenomena are but functions of 
the etheral medium which fills the universe, and 
from whose correlations to and reactions upon the 
particles of ponderable matter, all phenomena, like 
light, heat and gravitation, proceed. 

In the explanation which I am about to offer 
of magnetic phenomena, showing it to be the result 
of etheric undulations, the possible part which 
this universal force may have taken in the distri- 
bution and movement of the heavenly bodies will 
present a subject for numerous speculations. 

Magnetism may be explained as the result of 



168 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

tuned or sympathetic transverse and longitudinal 
undulations of the ethereal medium. This phe- 
nomena is somewhat analagous to those undulations 
that produce musical sounds; if a tuning fork is 
sounded or a musical note is sung near a piano 
having its dampers raised, the wire in tune with 
the tone produced by the voice or fork will vibrate 
producing the same sound. A tuning fork sus- 
pended near another vibrating fork will have vi- 
brations induced in it by the latter and be at- 
tracted toward the latter; thus when a magnet is 
near another magnetic substance, magnetic vibra- 
tions are set up in the latter substance and both 
are attracted toward each other; in both cases, 
however, the induction of vibrations precedes at- 
traction. 

In order to produce the phenomena of attrac- 
tion and repulsion the magnetic waves emanating 
from all magnetized matter must be synchronous. 
The magnetic "lines of force" may be considered 
as waves or ethereal impulses moving back and 
forth from the positive to the negative pole of the 
magnet and dissipating themselves into space from 
either pole. Thus, a number of bar magnets lying 
in a similar plane with like poles pointing in the 
same direction, will each induce a wave in the 
ether at exactly the same time and in the same di- 
rection, thus establishing a magnetic polarity, the 
frequency of the waves being determined by the 
substance and permanent magnetism of the earth. 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 169 

Magnetic polarity or "polar sympathy" consists, 
then, of an etheric oscillation or wave movement 
through a magnet in a certain direction from the 
positive and in a reverse direction from the nega- 
tive pole in any certain moment of time. 

If the like poles of two magnets are presented 
to each other the waves in each magnet are in tune 
but opposite in direction, therefore they repel each 
other and the stress in the ethereal medium dimin- 
ishes as the two magnets recede from each other, 
and it will reach an equilibrium only when the 
magnets are at a distance of one wave length, the 
distance traveled by the impulse in the ether in 
one-half the time of a complete oscillation back 
and forth. The waves set up by one magnet would 
then be in synchronism with those originating in 
the other magnet, that is, the return flow of the 
waves originating in one magnet would coincide 
with the outgoing waves of the other magnet at 
every point between the two magnets, or vice versa. 

When unlike magnetic poles are presented to 
each other the strain in the ethereal medium in- 
duced by the set of waves of one magnet lagging 
behind those of the other one, causes the magnets 
to be attracted toward each other, the synchronism 
of the two sets of waves becoming perfect when 
the magnets touch each other, the two magnets be- 
coming one, losing their individuality. If the 
magnets were in the same relative positions at a 
distance from each other greater than one wave 



170 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

length and less than three wave lengths, they would 
have a tendency to place themselves at a distance 
of two wave lengths from each other. 

From the above premises we conclude that at 
those places that are a distance of one wave length 
or multiples of a wave length from the exciting 
magnetic center, there will exist magnetic centers 
toward which magnetic matter will be attracted or 
repelled from. If, however, the particle of mag- 
netic matter operated upon is free to reverse it- 
self it will be attracted to the nearest center, 
pointing in one direction at one center and in the 
reverse direction at the next center, just as the 
needle of a compass reverses itself when presented 
first to one pole of a magnet and then to an oppo- 
site pole. 

Prof. Barlow has shown that the magnetic 
properties of iron and steel are at their maximum 
at a blood red heat ; also he found that between the 
maximum and minimum or zero state, the latter 
being a white heat, an anomolous change usually 
takes place, by which the end of a heated bar that 
acts positively or as a north pole at a red heat, 
gradually ceases to act as the temperature in- 
creases, and then acquires a negative polarity. 
This would go to show that the magnetic waves 
set up in the magnet are retarded (or increased?) 
by the conflicting heat waves until they are out 
of magnetic tune (this condition would be equiva- 
lent to that of a magnet half way between two 



A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 171 

magnetic centers, where the etheric strain would 
be the same in either direction), the bar thus 
becoming non-magnetic. By a further change of 
pitch, the total loss or gain of time being equal to 
one-half the time of a complete vibration back and 
forth, the oscillations are again in tune but are in 
opposite phase to those set up at a red heat, the 
bar or magnet consequently exhibiting an opposite 
polarity. This phenomena might also be accounted 
for by the magnetic pitch being raised or lowered 
an octave, as without doubt oscillations several 
octaves above or below a certain magnetic pitch 
would also produce the phenomena of magnetic 
attraction and repulsion. 

Ethereal undulations, whether set up by the 
discharge of electrified bodies or otherwise, appar- 
ently increases the corpuscular discharge of cer- 
tain substances penetrated by them. This effect 
is utilized in a practical manner in wireless tel- 
egraphy as the waves set up by the electric dis- 
charges at the sending station on reaching the re- 
ceiving station cause a greater molecular attrac- 
tion of the particles of metal in the coherer and 
thus complete the electric circuit in which the co- 
herer is inserted. 

Electrified bodies discharge with a frequency 
and wave length in proportion to their size and 
thus from the wave length or frequency of ethereal 
undulations we are able to calculate the approxi- 
mate size of the body in which any certain etheric 



172 A STUDY OF HIS WORKS. 

impulse has its origin; it is thus that we have 
gained a knowledge of the size of the ultimate 
corpuscles of matter. Truly the inductive powers 
of the mind of man are wonderful, and the result 
of his inventive genius astounds. By the use of 
the spectroscope substances which exist in distant 
stars are detected, and motions in the distant suns 
which otherwise would have been unknown are 
brought to light by this remarkable yet simple in- 
strument. 

It is within the realms of possibility that fur- 
ther investigation of the nature and frequency of 
etheric undulations may give us a method of accu- 
rately calculating distances by means of etheric 
wave lengths. 

From the theory I have advanced for mag- 
netism it is possible that as the planets have a cer- 
tain relative distance from the sun that they may 
owe their distribution and orbits to magnetic cen- 
ters formed by the great magnetic waves from the 
sun. 

The direct electric current may be assumed to 
be a continuous electric discharge in the same di- 
rection from molecule to molecule upon the sur- 
face of the conductor carrying the current of elec- 
tricity. 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

"The woman answered and said, I have no hus- 
band. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said 
thou hast no husband : 

"For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom 
thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst 
thou truly. 

"The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that 
thou art a prophet." (John IV. 17-19.) 

There is a power or faculty in man which when 
properly cultivated and developed enables him to 
penetrate into the secret life of any individual 
with whom he becomes en rapport, seeing thus the 
past and present life of that individual as though 
he were but recalling his own experience. 

I will now present complete lessons for the 
highest possible development of this psychic fac- 
ulty of man. These lessons and thoughts for de- 
velopment are sufficient to enable anyone who de- 
sires to cultivate this higher faculty within to reach 
the highest possible mental attainments. I have 
nothing further than the following lessons to pre- 
sent upon this subject in the way of direct instruc- 



174 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

tions, and no one, no matter what they claim, can 
give you any clearer lessons than these, and there 
are no "secret methods," etc., that can in any way 
aid yon further or hasten your development. NO 
MATTER WHAT YOU MAY HAVE EEAD 
UPON THIS SUBJECT, NO MATTEE HOW 
MANY MAY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO 
TEACH YOU HOW TO DEVELOP THIS 
FACULTY WITHIN YOU AND HAVE FAIL- 
ED TO DO SO, IF YOU WILL FOLLOW MY 
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER YOU 
WILL BECOME MOST HIGHLY AND 
SPEEDILY DEVELOPED. 

The stream of consciousness in which we live 
is not the only one which always exists in con- 
nection with our being. Our habitual conscious- 
ness consists of a mere collection from a multitude 
of thoughts and sensations which are always pass- 
ing within this inner self. The memory of this 
inner self is perfect; it records permanently all 
sensations and impressions which may come to 
it, and is never asleep. In case of approaching 
peril to the entity in which it dwells, it perceives 
without any aid from the physical senses, and if 
the objective mind is developed so that it may re- 
ceive impressions from this inner source, the for- 
mer is aroused to activity by a presentiment of 
impending danger. 

We have positive evidence through telepathy, 
that this psychic or soul force within, creates a 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 175 

movement or projection of itself in the surround- 
ing astral plane, which transmits itself to im- 
mense distances and becomes perceptible to those 
inner selves in harmony with our own. It pene- 
trates the inner selves of all sentient beings, thus 
opening up a way for the exchange of sympathies 
and ideas between every sentient form which in- 
habits this world, or even between them and those 
'who dwell beyond that space separating us from 
those higher realms above. 

A psychic person is one whose inner self is 
placed in a receptive condition by passivity and 
concentration, when the invisible astral forms pro- 
ceeding from the inner selves of others are felt 
by this self within and their message borne up to 
the objective mind as an intuitive thought. The 
actual fact of the action of the soul upon others 
at a distance, without the aid of the physical 
senses, has been clearly demonstrated by scientific 
investigation. The soul by its interior vision may 
not only see what is taking place at a distance, 
but may also know in advance what will happen in 
the future. The future exists potentially. There 
is a method in the succession of events, and in 
the relation of co-existent things which that soul, 
which has reached a higher development through 
the training and cultivation of its latent faculties, 
immediately siezes hold of. In other words, the 
perfect deductive reasoning of this inner self, to- 
gether with its perfect memory, its ability to get 



176 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

from the inner self of any other, any informa- 
tion that it may wish concerning that individual, 
enables this higher faculty within man to predict 
the outcome of all action, past, present and fu- 
ture, with an accuracy comparable to Omniscience. 
The profound significance of this fact cannot be 
overestimated, and we rightly conclude that the 
elements which make up the inner consciousness 
of man are clothed with the garb of Omniscience, 
and from their power to gain information of con- 
ditions beyond the range of the physical senses 
they appear to have all the essential attributes of 
Omnipresence. 

The first conditions required for development 
is bodily passivity and quiet surroundings. The 
one great aim at first is to acquire a steady "con- 
centration" of the mind, and while some of the 
exercises which I will hereafter present, may ap- 
pear to be body training, yet, it is evident that 
every physical action must be preceded by a men- 
tal action. 

In the start it must be clearly understood that 
the subject must be studied just as any of the 
physical sciences are studied; and while it is im- 
portant that a passive and receptive condition of 
mind and body should be acquired in the com- 
mencement of training, yet there has been many 
erroneous ideas upon this subject, for without a 
complete understanding of the elementary parts 
which are productive of this phenomena, concen- 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 177 

tration and passivity of mind is ineffective when 
immediate results are desired, and it would be no 
more possible to gain a higher development of this 
psychic faculty within while gazing abstractedly 
into a crystal, or while "sitting for development" 
in a dark room with a "magnetized" (?) cloth 
over your head, than it would be to acquire a 
knowledge of the multiplication table while you 
were endeavoring to see the traditional man in 
the moon. 

There is a vast congeries of phenomena, known 
as psychic, that is, of an indefinitely varied char- 
acter. This includes mesmerism, hypnotism and 
other methods of influencing others: clairvoyance, 
telepathy, spiritism, etc., but each and all of these 
phenomena have their origin in that inner self. 
Therefore, a complete understanding of the make- 
up and attributes of this inner self must be ac- 
quired. Man gained his first knowledge of the 
visible world through observing its condition and 
action, and by introspection, or observation of self 
by self, the mind is enabled to comprehend the 
processes used in the production of thought and 
other conditions of this self within. 

The normal or objective consciousness is a 
function of those uncountable atoms which make 
up the brain cells, and is destroyed upon the 
dissolution or removal of the brain from the 
physical organization. It is this latter fact from 
which the materialistic scientists have formed their 

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178 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

postulate that "death ends all." Their erroneous 
conclusion arises from the belief that the soul, like 
the normal mind, is a function of the human or- 
ganization, when from the very nature of things, 
we know that the opposite is true, that is, that 
the human body is but a function or attribute of 
the invisible self within. 

We find that until the normal mind has been 
trained to inhibit its sensory impressions, it is 
difficult for it to concentrate its attention; that is, 
it is hard for it to think of one thing to the exclu- 
sion of all other impressions. Environment, there- 
fore, has much effect upon the success of training. 

The solitude of the wood, the silent chamber 
of your home, the seclusion of a monastery, or 
upon the still waters of a crystal lake, are all 
ideal places to develop in harmony with this in- 
ner self. Everything you do and your training 
is to enable the normal mind to subdue for the 
time being the many sensory impressions which are 
constantly coming to it, that it may receive clear 
intuitive impressions from within. 

The first thing of vital importance is the cul- 
tivation of the gaze, or the faculty of directing the 
eyes toward some distant object without being ob- 
jectively conscious of seeing anything. This fac- 
ulty is acquired more easily in the open air or 
country. Fix your eyes easily upon some distant 
object and slowly walk toward it. Continue this 
exercise until you can look steadily at a distant 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 179 

object for ten minutes without winking. This is 
a very beneficial exercise for improving and 
strengthening the eyes, which are naturally in 
focus to see things at a distance, but it requires a 
conscious muscular effort to see things at close 
range, and to avoid this conscious muscular ac- 
tion of the eyes is one object in acquiring the 
gaze. 

To demonstrate your progress in the gaze, re- 
peat the following experiment: Close your hands 
tight and with thumbs pointing upward, hold 
them as far from you as you can, directly in front 
of, and on level with your eyes. Close your right 
eye and look steadily at your right thumb; then 
move your left hand slowly to the left without 
allowing your gaze to move from the right thumb. 
If you have perfect control of your eyes, when 
your left thumb is about six inches from your 
right, it will pass out of sight, although it will 
be visible at a greater or less distance from the 
right thumb. This is a peculiar phenomena, 
caused by the image of the left thumb falling 
upon the entrance of the optic nerve at the back 
of the eye. (?) 

If while practicing this exercise, some object 
comes into the range of your vision nearer you, 
do not let the focus of your eyes change, that 
is, do not see the object nearer to you. A blink- 
ing, shifting look is an indication of lack of de- 
termination or will, and if you acquire a stronger 



180 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

control of your eyes you will be enabled, appar- 
ently, to look into the eyes of another person for 
any time that you. may wish without winking, 
though really you perceive but a faint outline of 
the person toward whom your eyes are directed, 
as your eyes are not in focus to see near objects. 
The gaze is also a valuable aid in the cultivation 
of a strong personal power, as your argument will 
be more effective and convincing if you look 
squarely into the face of the person toward whom 
your conversation is being directed. 

The deep trance is not necessary in order to 
produce the highest phenomena, and should never 
be used. The normal mind should be sufficiently 
active to make a record of all the thoughts pass- 
ing through the inner consciousness. The object 
in the start should be to acquire the ability to 
make the "mind" a "perfect blank" any time this 
may be desired. 

Memory and intuition go hand in hand, as one 
increases so does the other. One is often mistaken 
for the other as the mental process producing one 
is nearly identical with that required to produce 
the other. You wish to recall some name or num- 
ber which you have forgotten. You try to think 
of it. What do you really do? If you will ex- 
amine your mental process carefully you will find 
that your mind becomes a blank until some name 
or number is brought up to your consciousness; 
if this is not the one desired, the mind becomes 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 181 

a blank again and waits for further impressions, 
and so on, until you recall what you desire. 

This is the same process as is used in obtain- 
ing an intuitive thought, with the exception that 
the mind must be under more perfect control that 
it may perfectly inhibit all sensory impressions 
for a much longer time. It is as though one de- 
sired to talk over a long-distance telephone and 
had surrounded himself with padded walls where 
no outside sound could penetrate, lest they might 
obscure the words coming from the telephone. 

After you have proceeded carefully with your 
training and have gained a perfect control of 
yourself you may then commence to ask questions. 
And here is the time where the "would-be psychic" 
commences to stumble, and thinks that he is now 
ready to solve the riddle of the universe, and with- 
out doubt his first question will be about the con- 
dition of some object upon the farther side of the 
moon. But as one would not expect to solve 
"quadratic equations" before he had learned to 
add and multiply, it would be unreasonable to 
suppose that he could accomplish any great re- 
sults of a psychic nature in the commencement 
of his training; on the contrary the first results 
that you will get from your training and what 
also must be the first results desired, is to be able 
to perfectly recall the details of the actions which 
have taken place in your own life at any period 
of time toward which you may turn your atten- 



182 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

tion, for it is evident that if you are unable to 
recall the details of that which has taken place in 
your own life there is small chance that you will 
be able to penetrate very closely into the past af- 
fairs of any other person. Thus the first result 
derived from your training will be an enormous 
increase in your memory and the ability to rea- 
son at a rapid rate both by induction and deduc- 
tion. In fact, as stated in a former chapter, many 
of the thoughts that are attributed to intuition are 
only the results of a very rapid inductive and de- 
ductive mental process, and the mind which has 
trained to reason in the abstract, as by the study 
of higher mathematical formulas, will develop 
a high intuition much more readily than one 
whose mind has not been thus trained. All the 
great geniuses, like Newton, Kepler and others 
who were noted for their great physical discoveries, 
and Dalton, Davy and a host of others who made 
many discoveries in chemistry, were all great math- 
ematicians. 

The secret of being personally magnetic is to 
be open, frank, honest and determined. You must 
do what you say you will if you wish people to 
trust and believe you. You must center your 
thoughts, in other words, concentrate upon the 
object of your association with others. Cherish 
no grievance and do not harbor any harsh or un- 
forgiving thoughts against any one you know. 
You must be pleasant and good natured if you 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 183 

wish others to be attracted to you. Stop wor- 
rying about your past failures and present trou- 
bles. Worrying about your condition will only 
make it worse. If you keep smiling and cheer- 
ful, even if you do not feel that way, you will 
find that you did not have anything really worth 
worrying about. 

Until the normal mind understands or becomes 
in harmony with the subconscious or soul mind 
to some extent it will always be discouraged. 

Our soul and our material body make up the 
entity of our present consciousness. One is com- 
plemental of the other. Each is necessary for 
the other's present stage of existence. It has been 
said: "That nothing can cure the senses but the 
soul." The reverse is also true, that nothing can 
cure the soul but the senses. Thus when the soul 
is sick we seek relief in the gratification of our 
physical sensations. Have you not, often, when 
disappointed with the fulfillment of your desires, 
or sick with the falsity of one you have trusted, 
flung yourself face downward upon the cool sward, 
or buried your face deep in the sweet fragrance 
of a bunch of flowers, and have you not become 
refreshed by this communion with mother earth, 
and for the time overcome the achings of the soul 
with the stronger physical sensations ? A law com- 
mon to all material entities demands a rest for 
each or else their dissolution. Witness the fevered 
patient, when his whole system is burning with 



184 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

the fires of disease, sleep is impossible for him, 
and his heated condition becomes unbearable. 
While the suffering of his mind at the thought of 
a slow and tortured approach to the dissolution of 
the body is beyond description. Then to relieve 
the mental strain, the normal consciousness is 
suppressed and he becomes delirious. And though 
the ravings of the mind may use some vital force, 
yet they are like a dream, purely imaginary, and 
he forgets for the time being, the true condition 
of his body. It is in this condition of the mind 
that the soul force is more readily able to restore 
harmony to the disordered body, as the normal 
mind is submerged in this higher consciousness 
of the soul, and does not antagonize the action 
of the latter by adverse suggestions. In the major- 
ity of all cases of sickness or ill health, the effect 
is heightened and the trouble increased by the pa- 
tient giving away too much to his fears on the 
approach of symptoms, which do not always cor- 
rectly indicate disease. There are recorded thou- 
sands of cases, where people have sickened and 
apparently suffered from some disease, when upon 
their death a post-mortem examination has dis- 
closed the fact that their ailment was purely im- 
aginary. This illustrates the baneful influence 
of adverse auto-suggestion. If you have learned 
concentration, that is, if you are able to think 
of one thing to the exclusion of all other impres- 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 185 

sions, you have acquired a power of the utmost 
value to you. If you have any sickness, the trou- 
ble has been because you have given the body too 
little mental and physical attention and have dwelt 
too long upon your troubles, the consequence is 
that your mind is clothed with the unpleasant part 
of your experience until you have lost all confi- 
dence in your powers. Go alone into your room 
and shut out all outside influences. Have an 
easy seat where you can relax and be comfortable. 
Be sure there is plenty of fresh air in the room. 
Take up introspection and revolve the above 
thoughts over in your mind, and you will come to 
the correct conclusion that if there is anything 
really wrong with yourself, it is going to be reme- 
died at once. And if you have enough vital force 
to heal a cut in your finger, the soul is still with 
you and you need not worry about some other dis- 
ordered part of your body, for if you give it proper 
attention it will be just as easy for the soul forces 
or workers, to restore it to normal condition as it 
is for them to heal the cut in your finger. 

Center the mind strongly upon the place dis- 
ordered and you will soon feel a gradual warmth 
glowing there, heralding the presence of the soul 
forces to remove the trouble or repair the injury. 
If you are in earnest in your endeavor you will 
be astonished at the results. Remember the ax- 
iom of life: "Only when the internal relations 



186 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

adapt themselves to their external environments 
can life exist." 

\ Science, through histology, or microscopic anat- 
omy, has clearly shown that every physical organ- 
ization is built of cytods and cells which are them- 
selves alive. All living animal organizations are 
divisible, broadly into two classes: namely, unicel- 
lular organisms and pericellular organisms. The 
former represent the lowest form of life. The 
latter are simply aggregations of the former, and 
these latter organisms are all guided and con- 
trolled by a central intelligence, which in man 
we call the soul, or subjective mind. This cen- 
tral intelligence, is not, as the materialistic biol- 
ogists would have it, the sum of all the intelli- 
gences of which the body is composed. It is an 
independent entity capable of surviving the dis- 
solution of the confederacy which it controls. The 
brain has no power of thought of itself. It is 
but the central station, through which the soul 
guides its human mechanism. 

Myriads and myriads of living cells are con- 
stantly at work upon the air and other nourish- 
ment received into our system, changing and re- 
newing the dwelling place of our soul. Each of 
these soul workers have a special work to perform 
and are constantly reporting the condition of the 
body to the objective mind, telling it of want of 
more materials to build from, of a desire of the 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 187 

help of the motor system to aid in the process of 
elimination or repair. These calls or messages 
from the soul workers the normal mind recognizes 
as hunger, thirst, rest, sleep, etc. If the physical 
body is disordered or troubled in any way, it is 
because we have not intelligently heeded these 
inner demands coming from the soul, or have ex- 
posed our body to physical injury. 

These internal workers are not cognizant of 
the outward conditions or environments of the 
physical body except through the impressions re- 
ceived by the normal mind. And the function of 
the objective mind is to surround the body with 
conditions and environments, which will give the 
soul workers the least possible labor in keeping 
the body in perfect condition. ( And as these work- 
ers have no other means of knowing the external 
surroundings of the body, save through the objec- 
tive mind, they must accept as true all impres- 
sions coming from this source.) And the mind that 
exaggerates or worries about a real or fancied 
trouble is placing an extra burden upon these work- 
ers, by sending so large an army of soul workers 
(an increased flow of blood to the place), to repair 
the injury or disorder that much friction arises 
from overcrowding (the blood becomes congested 
and the part becomes heated or inflamed), the re- 
sult being that the disordered part has really be- 
come worse, instead of better. ( This shows the 



188 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

baneful influence of adverse self-suggestion (auto- 
suggestion).) 

This dual nature of man paves the way for a 
higher evolution, but the want of harmony between 
the normal mind and the inner workers of the 
soul destroys the usefulness of either. But when 
the mind is constantly alert for every demand 
which may be made upon it by the inner workers 
and uses all means within its power to keep in 
harmony with this inner self, its effect is most 
beneficial upon the physical condition. 

( Get into the habit of introspection. Try to get 
a better comprehension of the action of your own 
mind. All thinking men now know that the power 
of man's mind over his body is actually superior to 
any disease. If you wish to have a strong mental 
control and will power, you must be careful to keep 
in good mental condition, for without good health 
you cannot have a strong, active brain. If the body 
is weak the mental power will be weak in propor- 
tion and you will not go about things with a 
strong enough determination to make your success 
assured. You must throw yourself more heartily 
into what you do, and not yield so easily to the in- 
fluence of others. Every time that you succeed, 
your confidence in your ability will increase and 
you will have less doubt about trying higher tests. 
Do not let yourself be discouraged by seeming fail- 
ures, as this would reduce your confidence. ) 

f After you are developed you will unconsciously 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 189 

influence others, therefore, yon should be very 
careful about your thoughts. Learn to control 
self by repeated exercises that you may control 
the power of your own soul. As your personal 
power increases you will be able to make an impres- 
sion upon the mind of any one toward whom you 
may direct your efforts, thus placing your thoughts 
in their brain in the place previously occupied by 
the thoughts of their own. You will then have 
the power to control the action of any one by con- 
trolling their mincLy' 

The majority of the people do not drink enough 
water, consequently there are not enough fluids 
in their system to produce a proper elimination 
of waste matter. Such people are usually nervous 
and irritable, and are often troubled with indiges- 
tion and constipation. Every active adult needs 
two or three quarts of fluid daily to supply suffi- 
cient fluids for normal digestion. If this taking 
of fluids is neglected ill health is sure to follow. 
During the last half hour before retiring drink two 
or three glasses of pure, cold water, and repeat it 
as soon as you arise in the morning. You will not 
find it agreeable to drink so much water at first, 
but soon you will not do without it. 

At the moment of retiring try to get the mind 
in an easy attitude toward all the world, and do 
not harbor a harsh or unforgiving thought against 
any one you know, and as you compose yourself 
for sleep try to recall some pleasant incident of 



190 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

your life, with its details or words that were spoken 
at the time. After you practice this way of going 
to sleep, you will find that your sleep is becoming 
more peaceful and resting. If pou succeed in 
getting into this deeper sleep, you will probably 
feel on first awakening as if you had been asleep 
a long time, but the feeling will soon wear away 
and you will have very clear thoughts. Make your 
plans for the day at this time, as you will be more 
intuitive at the moment of awakening than at any 
other time, and as you develop, this intuitive period 
will extend longer through the day and your inner 
impressions will be very strongly marked. ; 

It is not necessary for you to carry your train- 
ing to the deep illumination of the Yogi and 
esoteric of the Orient. As only by a life-long 
training can you reach some of these higher attain- 
ments, such as those gained by some of the Oriental 
adepts, who by long training and development of 
the subjective faculties and with the aid of a secret 
code of time signals, are able to transmit any mes- 
sage verbatum to an associate adept. 

In the start you will not get clear word im- 
pressions. The language of the soul is symbolic 
and most of the impressions thrown up to the 
objective mind at first will not be clearly under- 
stood. You will be walking along the street when 
something will seem to impel you to turn down 
another street, and if you follow the impulse, you 
will very likely meet some person you wished to 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 191 

see, witness some unusual occurrence, or avoid some 
danger to your own person. But you must follow 
the impressions that come to you if you wish to 
hasten your development; they have the same 
source as conscience, and unless you heed the in- 
tuitive thoughts that come to you, your instinctive 
impressions will become dulled just as the voice of 
conscience is stilled when it is repeatedly sinned 
against. 

Go where you can be alone and quiet and re- 
cline in an easy position. Put everything off 
from your mind of a disturbing nature, and so 
arrange your affairs that there will be nothing 
to interrupt your meditation. Eevolve all the 
thoughts thus far presented, over and over in your 
mind, strongly desire that you may receive impres- 
sions from the subjective mind. Affirm to yourself 
that you can and will develop this harmony be- 
tween the two minds. Then take up the following 
concentration exercise to develop and strengthen 
the objective mind. Have a picture before you, 
as a photo of someone, or any picture, and quietly 
look at it for a few minutes. Study the details 
carefully. Then close your eyes and try to see the 
picture with your eyes closed. Select out some 
prominent part and develop that first. Each time 
that you open your eyes to look at the picture add 
another feature to your image, and so on until you 
can recall the whole picture, and hold it in your 
mind to the exclusion of all other impressions. 



192 PSYCH [C DEVELOPMENT. 

Take up this practice in an easy manner without 
a strained effort, so that you will have very little 
consciousness of the process, or to the object of the 
exercise. 

Practice and vary this exercise until it becomes 
very easy to you to see any of the many familiar 
objects around you while your eyes are closed. 
Take this practice up with written capital letters 
until you are able to see the form of any letter 
you think of. This latter practice is absolutely 
necessary if you wish to be able to read sealed 
envelopes or any other concealed writing. 

' Eemember that every organ and part of the 
body is under control of the subjective mind. 
Train and practice until the subjective mind will 
obey your commands. Sexual purity is required 
and total abstinence from intercourse is necessary 
to receive any immediate results from training. 

You develop the vision phase of clairvoyance by 
closeting yourself all alone in a dark and silent 
room. Lay flat on your back upon a bed or couch ; 
have two magnets suspended in such a manner that 
they will just reach your temples where you are 
lying, and so arranged that they will swing away 
from your temples when they are released from the 
hands ; this is important, for should you fall asleep 
while you are practicing this exercise, the hands 
will relax and the magnets will swing away from 
you and then you need not be afraid of sinking 
into a too deep trance to commence with. Hold 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 193 

the magnets with the flat side against your temples, 
in such a manner that the north pole of one mag- 
net is nearest to the ear on one side, while on the 
other side the south pole of the other magnet is 
nearest to the ear. This will embrace the head 
without much pressure or crossing of the magnetic 
vibrations. 

When you have everything arranged satis- 
factorily and are comfortable, close your eyes and 
turn them upward. Flashes of light will soon ap- 
pear, and glimpses of changing forms. Do not 
try to examine the visions at first, as this tends to 
inhibit them. 

Let your mind remain perfectly passive and 
drift along as in a dream and do not try to remem- 
ber what you have seen. And do not try to force 
visions into your mind. After you have developed 
the power of mental seeing, the visions will be- 
come more strongly marked, you then may remem- 
ber what you have seen. Proceed carefully at this 
stage of development, for if you pass through this 
period successfully your development will proceed 
more rapidly, and you will soon be able to see any 
person thought of and just what he is doing at the 
time. If a person of whom you are not thinking 
is seen in your mental vision, it is because that 
person is thinking of you or is touching something 
you have been in contact with. The vision of this 
event is real. 

To cultivate the vision of the mind as in the 

is 



194 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

above lesson and then practice to see any object 
or person that you may think of, is the real and 
proper power of thinking. But you must con- 
tinue this practice until every thought you produce 
upon anything makes a mental picture clear and 
strong in your mind. This is clairvoyance, and is 
the quickest method of developing for professional 
mediumship. All these exercises should be prac- 
ticed in a darkened room at first, but soon you will 
be able to see anything you wish by closing your 
eyes and becoming perfectly passive. You will 
then be unable to think of any person or object 
without beholding them in your mind as a reality. 
If you think of pleasure, you will have beautiful 
and charming thoughts. If you form continually 
in your mind, a picture of health and strength, 
it will so impress your being and soul with its 
ever present image, that the sub-conscious mind 
will copy it in your own organism and you will 
soon be free from all impurity and disease. Be 
cheerful and do not keep your mind in a state of 
tension. Keep your face relaxed and smiling and 
you will soon feel the peacefulness and exultation 
of that soul, free from all evil influence. 

Clairaudience is the developed psychic sense by 
which we hear the sounds and words connected 
with our visions. 

Psychometry is the soul sense by which we feel 
the thoughts of others or know the history of ob- 
jects by personal contact. 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 195 

Inspiration is the inflow of truth coming from 
a higher plane through the agency of the spirit 
world, with which the soul or sub-conscious mind 
is in harmony. 

Intuition is the psychic sense through which 
we perceive the motives of others, or their relation 
to future events, and through this sense we are 
also warned, or receive prophetic knowledge of 
the result of present action. 

Clairvoyance is the interior vision with which 
we-see persons, places and things, hidden or beyond 
the range of physical vision. 

Practice closing your eyes and seeing any of 
the many familiar objects around you, or the face 
of some dear friend. This is a most valuable 
acquirement for anyone, whether poet, artist or 
mechanic; it will increase the memory to an 
astounding degree, and is the first step in the way 
to clear mental vision and intuition. 

In the generation of the electric current from 
mechanical energy, a number of wires wound 
upon an armature are caused to revolve rapidly, 
within a magnetic field. ;This has led to the dis- 
covery of a method of developing an animal mag- 
netism by the expenditure of physical energy. 

f After you have practiced the vision phase in 
connection with the use of magnets against your 
temples for at least one week, compose yourself 
very quietly while you lay flat upon your back 
and try to stop thinking entirely while you are 



196 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

becoming passive. Close the hands tight and with 
arms uplifted rotate your hands swiftly around 
each other for a short time. As soon as the arms 
become tired let them fall lifeless to your sides 
for a few minutes and become perfectly motionless. 
The hands should be unclenched and lay lifeless 
as possible. You will feel a great magnetic sen- 
sation and tingling in your hands, which will later 
on extend all through your body, giving you a 
delicious sense of exhileration and strength. After 
you have developed a strong magnetism in this 
manner every person who takes your hand will feel 
a pleasant thrill or magnetic shock and you will 
have a positive power to cure disease, not only in 
your organism, but by placing your hands upon 
the disordered part in yourself or any other per- 
son you will be able to remove the trouble in a 
very few treatments. If your hands are cold when 
you start to practice the above exercise, rub your 
palms hard together until they commence to burn. 
This will make a better conductor of the mag- 
netism generated by the rotary movement. When 
you attempt to raise your arms to commence a 
second rotation you will probably find yourself 
powerless to do so for a moment, and you will 
also find it hard to stop the rotation when you 
wish. This is due to the subjective mind taking 
you under control. If these exercises are kept up 
regularly at short intervals for a half hour every 
day, you will notice an involuntary movement of 



PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 197 

your hands and finally your hands will be con- 
trolled by your inner self, and if you are sitting 
at a table you will seize a pencil and write messages 
upon subjects and regarding persons and things 
you have never known about. This is called auto- 
matic writing. 

This subjective control is a very valuable attain- 
ment. And while in ordinary movements it is 
mainly the result of repetition or habit, as in 
walking, eating or breathing. Yet by a higher 
development of the subjective control spontaneous 
movements will be made without knowledge of 
effort upon your part. Thus the accomplished 
performer upon a musical instrument or any com- 
plicated mechanism, is able to perform difficult 
and intricate movements while his mind is upon 
some other subject. And astonishing as it may 
seem to an undeveloped mind, this higher con- 
sciousness within is not only able to think without 
the aid of the normal mind, but will also cause 
the hand to write down the subject of its thoughts, 
while you are in a state of passivity. Soldiers 
have been known to sleep while marching, walk- 
ing just as straightly and steadily as if their 
actions were governed by their normal mind. 

If you once understand the relation which ex- 
ists between the spiritual and the material body, 
you at once see that the soul is the real source of 
life to the corporeal organism, having complete 
charge and control over all its functions. The 



198 PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 

fundamental laws of all sentient beings are the 
same. Self -Preservation, Nutrition and Repro- 
duction are the three instinctive activities common 
to all. And had not these three instincts been 
perverted by the ignorance and indifference of men 
there would not be one sick person in all the 
world. An animal in its natural state is subject 
to less disease than is man with all of his superior 
reason. 

Eeason being most highly developed in man, 
and, as we have seen, stands or should stand guard 
over his actions, he should present to the world 
the most perfect health and conduct of all creat- 
ures. 

After you have developed your intuitive faculty 
to a slight degree of proficiency, it will be best 
for you to follow your own inner impulses in re- 
gards to your further development, as you will 
receive information in this way that will have 
an immediate application to your individual case. 



ALL FOE THE BEST. 

"Jesus answered, Neither hath this man 
sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of 
God should be made manifest in him." (John 
IX, 3.) 

Nothing happens by chance. Every effect 
is governed by some cause which the psychic 
mind may predetermine. To the developed 
soul, "Faith is fate, Desire is destiny." There 
is no destined end, no fatal attraction which 
may hinder the progress of a determined soul 
when it has reached a higher comprehension 
of the Divine principle within. Have you not 
thought in moments of deep seriousness, that 
there might be some way of living and think- 
ing, some system of action, through which you 
might gain all your heart desired? And have 
you vainly sought that way? You wish to 
gain influence, to be cultured, beautiful and 
thoroughly healthy. You want nice things 
around you and money to gratify your ambi- 
tions. Everyone wishes these things. And 
there is not one desire which comes to you, but 
the soul with all the omnipotence of the unseen 
world, is anxious and ready to fulfill it for you. 



200 A_LL FOR THE BEST. 

And in so far as what you desire does not inter- 
fere with any higher cause you may have 
every ambition gratified. It is the Spirit of the 
great unknown, ardently desiring for the 
higher evolution of the material form, which 
fills your mind with grand and sublime as- 
pirations. • 

Have disappointing and distressing condi- 
tions come into your life? Have you suffered 
both physical and mental pain, disfigurement 
or deformity? Have you been homeless, 
friendless ? Have even those you loved turned 
away from you and left you to drink alone of 
the bitter cup of despair? Remember that the 
Son of Man had not where to rest his head. 
"Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." We 
all have felt at times the great master Sculptor 
at work upon our lives, but have we not grown 
more "perfect through suffering" the blows of 
His chisel ? And in our moments of direct ex- 
tremity and agony, has there not been some 
hope, have we not felt the presence of an un- 
seen power? 

"Shedding soft drops of pity, 
Where the sharp edges of the tool have been." 

Disappointment and suffering are not 
meant to embitter our lives. It is a high privi- 
lege, a special training, to bring us into 
sweeter communion, a closer relationship, with 



ALL FOR THE BEST. 201 

the omnipotent Ruler of Life. And we need 
to "eat grass like the ox, and be wet with the 
dew of heaven, until seven times pass over us," 
that we may know that the Most High ruleth 
in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whom- 
soever he will. 

The inspired prophet says : "My people 
are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because 
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject 
thee." "Why will ye die, O my people?" It 
is because there is an errant and evil influence 
abroad, set in motion by the errors and sin of 
past ages, which has blinded many to the true 
knowledge of the soul. And this evil spirit, 
which the Gospel calls legion, is the blind force 
which souls have to conquer, to liberate them- 
selves from the bonds of earth. And until 
each soul is free from this fatal attraction, their 
lives will be filled with misfortues, their spir- 
itual progress hampered, and they will never 
realize that they, themselves, are a manifesta- 
tion of, and from the Most High. And for 
this lack of knowledge of which the prophet 
speaks, their souls will not reach those higher 
planes of existence but will be consumed by 
their evil desires, and their existence blotted 
out forever. Who will not give all his wealth, 
yea, his body, his present house of clay, in order 
that he may gain this knowledge, through 
which he may become immortal ? But the sac- 



202 ALL FOR THE BEST. 

rifice in not required; if you seek and gain this 
knowledge of the Infinite and the Eternal all 
of your physical needs will be supplied, and the 
gratification of your physical senses other than 
to keep the house of your soul pure and sweet 
will sink into insignificance in comparison to 
the pleasure derived by the soul in its sub- 
jective advance through the realms of the 
spirit. 

I am a believer in happiness. I am quite 
sure that our beneficent Creator meant all of 
His creatures to be happy. But until the nor- 
mal mind understands or becomes in harmony 
with the subconscious mind or soul, it will 
always be dissatisfied with itself. It is this un- 
conscious longing for a knowledge of the in- 
finite powers within us which makes us dis- 
contented. Physical gratification may give 
momentary pleasure, but true and lasting hap- 
piness comes from the soul alone. 

All human aspirations protest against an- 
nihilation. To develop the soul powers until 
one may comprehend the nature of the think- 
ing principle within, is a thing so important 
that only those who have lost all feeling can 
rest indifferent to it. It is by controlling the 
mental faculties and directing them toward the 
grand and sublime, that man is enabled to 
reach the highest spiritual attainments. It is 
this higher development of the soul that has 



AL.L FOR THE BEST. 203 

given to the world its most noble characters. 
Happy is the soul who has learned to enter into 
the silence and receive Divine impressions from 
the beyond. 

But there is nothing immortal but truth, 
and of truth there is much, infinitely much, to 
learn. Human knowledge compared with om- 
niscience is a drop of water compared to a lim- 
itless ocean. And this higher spiritual devel- 
opment, or Divine birth, is the door through 
which we may penetrate into the secret realms 
of the great unknown. Fiction may have its 
uses, may be entertaining and beneficial in cer- 
tain cases, but all novels whatever, the best 
equally with the worst, have been obliterated 
and faded almost to the oblivion of their re- 
spective efficacious generation. This is the su- 
perscriptional curse, hieroglyphiced against the 
whole category of fiction. 

When you fully understand some of the 
powers of the soul, death to you will be but 
the passing into a new phase of existence, where 
your spiritual progress will be very rapid and 
unhampered by the limit of your physical body. 
When you have developed that deeper sleep 
you will be able to leave your earth-body at will, 
may even view it as it lays silent and senseless 
before you. And some day when the material 
organism becomes unfit for the dwelling-place 
of your real soul-body, you will leave it for- 



204 ALL FOR THE BEST. 

ever, and immediately see the glory of the be- 
yond as you ascend to the higher realms of 
God, where, if you are worthy of His mercy, 
and have obeyed the commands of this Great 
Ruler, you may dwell forever in the light of 
His Divine Presence, and those forms who have 
associated with you during your material ex- 
istence will lay the useless body away and it 
will again become a part of the silent earth. 

"Nor yet in the cold ground, 
Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, 
Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist 
Thy image. Earth that nourished thee, shall claim 
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, 
And lost each human trace, surrendering up 
Thine individual being, shalt thou go 
To mix forever with the elements." 

This is, indeed, what takes place with our 
earth-body, and Bryant gives us a true picture 
of the end of all material forms, but he lacked 
a higher knowledge and faith, for we know 
that to the soul of man 

"There is no death ; the stars go down. 
To rise upon a fairer shore." 



NOTES. 

Note 5. Among the thousands who have consult- 
ed me during my public practice in hypnotism, mes- 
merism, clairvoyance, etc., I have successfully treated 
hundred of persons who were suffering from what 
is usually termed hallucinations. These cases would 
range all the way from temporary mental aberration 
to complete insanity. Medical treatment in such 
cases has little if any value, and in most cases the 
patient has comparatively fair health. In my expe- 
rience with hallucinated (?) patients I have been led 
to believe that there is a real reason for these ab- 
normal conditions of mind, other than a weak mental 
state; I think with Polonius: "Though this be mad- 
ness, yet there is method in it." 

One of my clients, whose name I am not at lib- 
erty to divulge, I will mention. He was a young 
man, highly educated, a printer by occupation. He 
had an excellent memory, and would often recite 
long passages of prose and verse from prominent 
authors for the entertainment of his associates. He, 
however, was frequently subjected to nervous pe- 
riods in which he, apparently, was obsessed. He 
came to me and explained his condition of mind with 
the utmost sincerity; I will quote his own words: 
"Yesterday an old woman took my eyes for a long 
time and used them, and when I try to sleep others 
come and burn my fingers with lighted matches and 
take my brain to study with; can you make them 
stop it?" I told him that I would soon put a stop 



206 NOTES. 

to these annoyances, and while carefully inquiring 
into his case, through telepathic influence I threw 
him into a subjective condition, and after giving him 
both verbal and telepathic suggestions about his 
condition, I arranged to have him come back at cer- 
tain dates. He had about the same story to tell 
when he came back the second time; they had 
"stopped using his eyes and brain, but they now 
took him and made him walk about the street until 
he was completely exhausted." I left him in my 
office for a moment and watched him carefully from 
a connecting room, while I started to give him telep- 
athic suggestions. He stood before a large mirror 
and as soon as I left him alone he commenced to 
make grimaces at his reflection in the glass, and 
said to himself: "This is not me, this is not me." 
It was a sight to move the strongest heart to pity. 
Notwithstanding his mental trouble, he was able to 
work at his occupation, except when, to use his own 
words, "those people had kept him from sleeping 
and had tired him out from using his mind." After 
several treatments, I had the satisfaction of remov- 
ing these subjective periods entirely. 

This is one from a number of similar cases com- 
ing under my immediate attention, and in my in- 
vestigations in this and similar cases, I have con- 
cluded that all such cases are the result of the orig- 
inal ego, or personality, as the outcome of overwork 
or study, being dethroned by an inferior ego, who as- 
sumes temporary charge of the brain and body. This 
in many cases the patient is partly aware of, imag- 
ining that it is some witch or demon who has him 
under control; and being unable to understand the 
real cause of his condition, he attributes it to any 
plausible cause which may be suggested to his mind; 
the patient may in many cases, as the result of re- 



NOTES. 207 

peated suggestions, be made to attribute his condi- 
tion to any new cause which the operator may sug- 
gest. Herein lies my success in restoring an af- 
flicted person to a normal condition; and I am at 
the present time making an exhaustive study in 
this line of work in the hope to establish a method 
for the general treatment of insanity. Hypnotism is 
of but little value in treating these abnormal mental 
conditions, although a patient in this condition is in 
a condition similar to hypnosis, and like a subject 
in this latter state, if he is given a premise to rea- 
son from, he will reason deductively and his reason- 
ing will be correct from the premise given, no mat- 
ter how inconsistent his conclusions may be when 
compared with his waking experience. 



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